Erica plumigera Bartl.

1 1/2 ft. or more high; stem erect, not much branched; branches subflexuous, finely floccose with minutely plumose or barbellate hairs; lateral branchlets 1/2-1 in. long, numerous, cernuous, floriferous; leaves 3-nate, erect or subspreading, imbricate, linear to oblong, subtrigonous, keeled, ciliolate or naked, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, numerous at the ends of short decurved branches; pedicels cernuous, floccose, about 1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, elliptic, apiculate, about 1-11/2 lin. long; sepals elliptic, acute, keeled, subcomplicate, approximate or imbricate, 1 3/4-2 lin. long, at full maturity a little lower than the top of the corolla; corolla urceolate or conical-urceolate, somewhat contracted at the throat, reddish, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments variable in length, spreading-recurved, but not stellate-patent; filaments rather broad, tapering to the apex; anthers included, lateral, sub-cuneate, 2/5 lin. long, the length 2 1/4 times the greatest width, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests affixed rather high above the base of the cell and half its length, ovate or suborbicular, serrulate with a terminal longer subulate lobe; style subincluded, sometimes just manifest above the corolla-tube; stigma clavate; ovary globose, minutely hairy or scabrous; ovules pallid, lenticular or flat, not margined.