Erica oblongiflora Benth.

Erect, 2-3 ft. high; branches spreading or straggling, stout, leafy and pubescent above, naked and glabrescent below, dark-coloured and rough with leaf-scars; leaves mostly 4-nate, occasionally somewhat scattered, crowded, spreading, recurved, oblong or narrow-elliptical, obtuse, deeply and widely sulcate, glabrous, thick, shining, margins cartilagineo-dentieulate, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate; pedicels 2 1/2-4 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblong, thick, scarious, about 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, thick, scarious, coloured, about 2 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid, viscid, glabrous, of thick consistence, greenish, with 16 faint longitudinal veins, 4-5 1/2 lin. long; segments small, erect, semiorbicular, about 1/10 the length of the tube; filaments broad at the base, tapering upwards with a sigmoid curve; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, linear-cuneate, subacute, smooth, glabrous, 3/4 lin. long, decurrent-aristate; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns adnate to the filament for about 1/4 lin., with acute free tooth-like points; style shortly exserted; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary glabrous.