Erica lawsonia Andrews

Erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches slender, subvirgate; leaves erect, acute, keeled, puberulous, ciliate, 1 1/2-2 l in. long; flowers mostly solitary on. short lateral branchlets, forming a pseudo-raceme (or rarely 4-nate, ex Bot. Mag.), subsessile; bracts approximate, leaf-like, scarious-edged, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate-linear, acuminate, scarious, about 3 lin. long; corolla-tube cylindrical (or when old, somewhat inflated at the base round the swollen capsule), mouth not contracted, dry, puberulous or glabrous, red, 5-7 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad; segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 2 lin. long; anthers oval, 1/4-1/3 lin. long, muticous.