Erica nemorosa Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, reaching 6 ft. high (Bentham); branches subvirgate or more rarely spreading, tomentose with simple soft hairs; leaves suberect, slender, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, scarcely 1 lin. long; flowers corolline; pedicels 1/2-3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small; sepals from subovate and acute to oblong-lanceolate and subacuminate keel-tipped, glabrous or puberulous, mostly strongly incurved towards the apex, more rarely straight, coloured, about 1/2 the height of the corolla, 1/2-2/3 lin. long; corolla varying from broad-to narrow-cyathiform, red or rosy, 3/4-1 1/8 lin. long; segments erect, very variable, from 1/2 the tube to somewhat longer; anthers included or sometimes subexserted, suboblong, obtuse, 1/5-1/3 lin. long, muticous or minutely aristulate; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; style slender, exserted; stigma capitellte; ovary minutely hairy, or at least on the summit.