Erica nigrimontana Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 1 ft. or more high, glabrous except on the younger branches and the ovary; branches ascending, rather straight, subfastigiate, puberulous, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, addressed, not crowded, about as long as the internodes, linear-trigonous, obtusely acute, sulcate, the younger minutely gland-ciliate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels subviscidulous, about 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts, 2 subapproximate, 1 more remote, ovate, cartilaginous, viscidulous, rosy, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-ovate, keel-tipped, imbricate at the base, about 2 lin. long, reaching nearly to the top of the corolla; corolla urceolate-campanulate or globose-suburceolate, not much constricted at the throat, viscidulous, rosy, 2 lin. long; segments spreading or stellate-patent, or sometimes subrecurved, broadly rounded, concolorous, a little over 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments dilated and bent just below the anther; anthers manifest, about as long as the corolla, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, obtuse, incurved, about 5/8 lin. long, crested; pore 2/3 the length of the cell; crests free, lanceolate in outline, deeply inciso-partite; lobes linear, the whole less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted, thickened towards the apex; stigma ciavate-capitellate; ovary glabrous; ovules much compressed.