Erica rubens Thunb.

Erect, almost entirely glabrous, about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, slender, reddish, glabrescent; leaves erect or suberect, imbricate below or on the upper branchlets, often shorter than the internodes, linear or narrow-oblong, acute, sulcate, the uppermost sometimes pubescent, about 2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate or umbellate, 3-6-flowered, at length usually cernuous; pedicels slender, glabrous, crimson, 3-7 lin. long; bracts remote, slender, linear, adpressed; sepals lanceolate, sulcate, glossy, dark red, about 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate-ovoid to urceolate-globose, mouth much contracted, bright red, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; segments very short, suberect or connivent; filaments bent; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, thinly hairy chiefly at the base, about 1/2 lin. long; pore 3/4-7/8 the length of the cell; connective produced backwards at a right angle near the base and carrying a broad pale lacerated papery crest, winged laterally, with a linear terminal lobe, the whole about as long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate, very small; ovary obovate, on a distinct stipe 1/2 lin. or more long.