Erica lehmannii Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, 2-3 ft. high; branches ascending, subvirgate, pilose; leaves 3-nate, suberect, imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, roughly ciliate with longish tubercle-based hairs, cano-puberulous below, glabrous above, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, subcalycine; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, ciliate, larger than usual in. the section, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, scarious, ciliate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate-campanulate, mouth scarcely or not at all contracted, glabrous, dry, about 2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, about 1/3 as long as the tube; filaments broader at the base, tapering upwards; anthers exserted, terminal or subterminal, narrow-oblong or subobovate-oblong, incurved, about 2/3 long, muticous; pore less than 1/2 as long as the tube; style slender, exserted; stigma very small, subsimpte or capitellate; ovary glabrous.