Erica polifolia Salisb. ex Benth.

Weakly diffuse and probably trailing amongst other shrubs or in long grass, or stouter and erect; branches up to 12 in. long, slender, pale, the younger furrowed by the decurrent leaf-cushions, distantly leafy with internodes 1/2-1 in. long, ultimate flowering branches sometimes pedunculoid, with leaves reduced to small (3-nate) bracts; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved, linear, acute, aristate, flattish, sulcate, 6-11 lin. long, mostly 3/4 lin. in width, but sometimes reaching 1 1/2 lin.; flowers subcorolline, in 3-6-flowered umbels;, pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts all approximate, or 1 remote, basal, ovate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long, the lower very caducous; sepals ovate, cuspidate, acuminate, or aristate, often gland-ciliate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, slightly contracted at the throat, 2 1/4-2 1/2 lin. long; segments broadly rounded, spreading or recurved, about 1/2 lin. long; filaments narrow, or broader than the anther (in front view); anthers exserted, narrow-elliptical, dark-brown, scaberulous, about 3/4 lin. long; pore as long as the cell.