Erica ribisaria Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, about 1 1/2 ft. high; branches many, weak-growing and slender, sparsely hirsute, glabrescent, reddish; leaves 4-nate, spreading, narrow-linear, subterete, blunt, sulcate, hispidulous, 1-2 lin. long; internodes usually becoming much longer than the leaves; flowers 4-nate; pedicels very slender, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, infra-median, very small; sepals linear from a broader base, foliaceous at least in the upper portion, pubescent, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; corolla ovoid to globose-urceolate, contracted at the mouth, thinly puberulous, dry, 1 1/2-2 lin. long, bright crimson; segments erect, connivent, broad and rounded, very short, darker than the tube; filaments slender; anthers included, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, very obtuse, about as broad at the base as their length, sparsely hispidulous, about 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore wide, about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns linear, straight, somewhat long ciliate, about as long as the cells (the anther much resembling that of E. mollis, but slightly larger and with longer hairs on the awns); style included, straight; stigma small, capitellate; ovary hispidulous.