Erica macroloma Benth.

Erect, 12 in. or more high; branches long, straightish, leafy, minutely gland-pubescent; leaves 3-nate, rather long-petiolate, imbricate, erect-spreading, linear-oblong or linear-obcuneate, obtuse, viscidulous, margins neatly, prominently and shortly gland-ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers as in the preceding species [E. obliqua, Thunb.]; pedicels very slender, viscid, 3-9 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, adpressed to the corolla, viscid, gland-ciliolate, 1 1/2 lin. or more long; corolla obconic, viscid, glabrous, or sometimes scantily pilose on the tube, pale rose, 3-3 1/2 lin. long (dried and pressed specimens 2 1/2-3 lin. wide at the apex); segments widened but not curved, oblong or ovate, acute or obtuse, nearly 2 lin. long, or somewhat exceeding the tube, a gibbous thick callus at the base of each sinus; filaments broadish, equal, only a little longer than the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed just above the base, broad-linear, subincurved, smooth, glabrous, 3/4-1 lin. long, cristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, lacerate, with a sharp terminal lobe, more than 1/2 the length of the cell; style manifest, about equalling the corolla; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous, somewhat constricted at the base, but scarcely stipitate.