Erica modesta Salisb.

Erect, dwarf; stem stout and woody, probably under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, flexuous, sometimes intricate, covered with persistent leaf-cushions, the younger (also the pedicels) floccose with small subplumose or minutely barbellate hairs, younger leaves, bracts and sepals similarly ciliate; leaves 3-nate (also 4-nate, according to Bentham), erect-spreading, closely imbricate, sexfarious, oblong, subobtuse, thick, round-backed, sulcate, the younger ciliate and incanopulverulent, glabrescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels floccose, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts closely approximate, ovate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, pubescent, ciliate, very concave, pale rosy, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but somewhat larger, 1 1/2-2 lin. long, about 1/2 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid-urceolate, tapering somewhat gradually to the contracted throat, or tubular-urceolate, and then only very slightly contracted at the throat, pubescent, pale rosy, 3-4 lin. long; segments spreading, rounded, about 1 1/4 lin. long; filaments slender, sigmoid below the anther; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate-oblong, subobtuse, dark-coloured, scaberulous, a little over 1/2 lin. long, aristate; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; awns narrow-subulate, ciliolate, about 1/2 the cells in length; style included, or at length manifest; stigma capitate; ovary very pale, glabrous.