Erica mira Klotzsch ex Benth.

Apparently erect, 8 in. or more high; branches straggling, slender, reddish, white-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, suberect, mostly scanty with longish internodes, linear-oblong, blunt, sulcate, glabrous, pallid, under 2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, scanty, corolline; pedicels puberulous, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals subulate-linear, acute, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, marked with 8 longitudinal lines, a little over 2 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, about 1/5 the length of the tube; filaments long and slender, 1 2/3 lin. long; anthers sublinear, a little widened towards the apex, smooth, nearly 1/2 lin. long, aristate; pore nearly equal in length to the cell; awns strap-shaped, equal throughout, closely approximate but free, the points shortly spreading, a little shorter than the cells; style exserted; stigma clavellate, small; ovary globose, minutely hispidulous or glabrous.