Erica pogonanthera Bartl.

Small shrub, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches pubescent; leaves spreading or squarrose, mostly recurved, linear or oblong, obtuse, thick, glabrous, the younger ciliolate, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, white; sepals ovate-orbicular, acute, narrowed at the base, white, 1 1/4 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, puberulous or glabrous, white, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, a little wider than its length, equalling or a little shorter than the sepals; anthers terminal, longitudinally semi-elliptical, acute, tapering at the base, dark brown, covered with shaggy purplish hairs, or sometimes glabrous and only shortly ciliate, 5/8-3/4 lin. long; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.