Erica petraea Benth.

Erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches ascending but somewhat spreading or straggling, stoutish, glabrous or slightly pubescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, obovate-oblong, subacute, the upper face concave with a thick nerve, the lower sulcate, thick, glabrous, smooth and shining, margin cartilaginous, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal and axillary towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, pubescent, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts 2, closely approximate, small, foliaceous; sepals lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, ciliolate, rigid, thick, 3/4 lin. long; corolla ovoid, glabrous, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, short, rounded; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, bifid, minutely scaberulous, pale brown, nearly 3/5 lin. long, very shortly aristulate; pore over 1/3 as long as the cell; style straight, exserted beyond the anthers; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.