Erica praecox Klotzsch

Erect, 6-8 in. high; branches ascending, mostly curved; branchlets pubescent, and, as are the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals ciliate or more or less pilose with soft white hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous, or becoming so; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading or slightly incurved, linear, subacute, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, sometimes by abortion of the lateral branchlets appearing axillary and clustered; pedicels slender, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, small; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate; tube pale or bright red, about 4 lin. long; throat purple; limb red; segments ovate, acute, 3/4-1 lin. long; anthers oblong or subcuneate, 1/3-1/2 lin. long, purple, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; ovary stipitate.