Erica physantha Benth.

Erect, 6 in. or more high; branches flexuous, subglabrous; leaves somewhat spreading, oblong, obtuse, thick, glabrous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; pedicels under 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, sepal-like, but smaller; sepals broad-ovate, subobtuse, keel-tipped, scarious, ciliate, glabrous, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla oblate, subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, wide-mouthed, 2 1/4 lin. long, or reaching nearly twice the height of the sepals; filaments with a sigmoid bend just below the anther; anthers sublateral, shortly oblong, obtuse or obliquely subacute, rounded at the base, minutely ciliolate, a little over 1/2 lin. long, dark-coloured; pore about 3/5 the length of the cell; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary globose, thinly hispidulous.