Erica mucronata Andrews

Erect, 1 1/2 ft. high; branches erect or spreading, downy; leaves spreading, incurved, narrow-lanceolate, setaceous-acuminate, mucronate, keeled, glabrous, 4-10 lin. long; flowers 3-nate (or 3-6-nate, Andrews) on short arrested branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels downy, decurvcd, 3-4 lin. long; bracts, 2 approximate imbricating the sepals, 1 remote, lanceolate, setaceous-acuminate, scarious, keeled; sepals like the bracts, but larger, including the bristle-like point, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla obconic-campanulate, rosy, 2 1/2 lin. long (in MacNab's 233, a cult. sp. ?); segments slightly spreading, ovate, subacute, about 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad at the base, tapering upwards, a little longer than the anther; anthers included, lateral, narrow-oblong, subacute, minutely scaberulous, dark-coloured, 1 lin. long, 4 1/2 times longer than its greatest width, muticous; pore small, about 4 1/2 times shorter than the cell and near its apex; style slender, well-exserted; stigma small, obconic; ovary glabrous.