Erica racemosa Thunb.

Erect, 6-12 in. high; branches somewhat slender, pubescent, and hirsute with longer often gland-tipped hairs; leaves 4-nate, the upper erect-spreading, the lower often subsquarrose, crowded, linear, sulcate, rarely narrow-lanceolate and subopen-backed, pubescent and ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-4 in each whorl of the leaves at the ends of the branches, generally forming a more or less dense pseudo-raceme (not truly racemose); pedicels puberulous, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; corolla urceolate, mouth somewhat contracted (when young subtubular or cyathiform, mouth not or scarcely contracted), glabrous, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long; segments 1/8-1/6 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, equal; anthers commonly subexserted, occasionally exserted, lateral, suboblong, distinctly incurved at the back, scabrid, a little more than 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/3 as long as the cell; style exserted beyond the anthers, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary hispid.