Erica nubigena Bolus

Erect, 6-12 in. high; branches usually much-spreading and numerous, stout, glabrous, brittle; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely 3-4-nate on the same plant, suberect to squarrose, linear-oblong or narrow-elliptical, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, thick, viscid, glossy, sparsely gland-ciliolate or naked, the younger black-apiculate, rather long-petiolate, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-4-nate; pedicels slender, viscid, coloured, 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 subbasal, viscid, adpressed; sepals lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, viscid, minutely keel-tipped, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, very viscid, glabrous, red or purple, 3-3 1/2 lin. long; limb short, spreading, about 1/12 the length of the tube; filaments rather narrow; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, oblong-cuneate, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, 2/3 lin. long, aristate; pore nearly 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subulate-acuminate from a broadish base, curved, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary deeply 8-lobed, velvety, hispidulous at the apex.