Erica mollis Andrews

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high, all parts more or less hirsute with rather long hairs; leaves 4-nate, from suberect to squarrose, linear, subterete, obtuse, obscurely sulcate, somewhat rough from the tubercles at the base of the hairs, about 2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, clustered; pedicels scarcely 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, long-ciliate, coloured, under 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, contracted at the throat, coarsely hirsute, dull red, 1 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, rounded, less than 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments slightly bent at the apex; anthers included, laterally basifixed, trigonous, sparsely hispidulous, about 1/6 lin. long, aristate; pore orbicular, about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns straight, linear, closely serrulate, as long as the cell; style mostly included, rarely subexserted; stigma large, subpeltate; ovary glabrous.