Erica passerinoides (Bolus) E.G.H.Oliv.

A densely branched erect shrub, about 2 ft. high; branchlets at first minutely tomentose, soon becoming glabrous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, including the petiole 3/4-1 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, flat on the face, very minutely ciliate; flowers in small terminal clusters of 3-9, drooping; pedicels 3/4-1 lin. long, curved, puberulous; sepals 4, unequal or rarely subequal, narrowly oblong, obtuse, minutely ciliolate, the larger 2/3 to nearly 1 lin. long, usually leaf-like at the upper half; corolla obconic-clavate, 4-lobed, glabrous, pink (Bolus); tube 3/4 lin. long; lobes incurved, 1/4 lin. long, rounded; stamens 4, included; filaments 1/3 lin. long, free, filiform; anthers nearly 1/3 lin. long and broad at the top, broadly cuneate, bifid to half-way down, very obtuse, with awn-like spurs at the base, very minutely scabrid; ovary subglobose, slightly 4-grooved, puberulous; style just reaching the tips of the corolla-lobes, about 1/3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma peltate, 1/4 lin. in diam.; ovules 8-9 in each cell.