Erica pinea Thunb.

Erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches stout, rigid, often flexuous; leaves sub-6-nate, or scattered, densely imbricate, erect-incurved, lanceolate-linear or linear, acute, round-backed, glabrous, 6-8 lin. long; flowers crowded at the ends of the branches; pedicels 1 1/2 lin. Long; bracts, 2 approximate, linear, 2 1/2 lin. long, thee third medial and smaller; sepals linear from an ovate base with subscarious margins, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly curved, glabrous, dry, yellow, or white, 10-12 lin. long; anthers subexserted or subincluded, lateral, oblong, basifixed, muticous, from 2/3-1 lin. long, pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; ovary turbinate, shortly stipitate, glabrous.