Erica salax Salisb.

Branches numerous, fastigiate, pubescent; leaves subspreading, lanceolate, acute, sulcate, thick, shining, minutely serrulate, glabrous, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1/2 lin. or more long; bracts subapproximate, small; sepals ovate, acute, very concave, keeled, scarious, ciliolate, 2/3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, broader than its length, barely 1 lin. long; segments broad-ovate, obtuse, erect, in length equalling or twice that of the tube; filaments rather broad, about as long as the anther; anthers narrow-ovate, subacute, minutely ciliolate on the front margin, about 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore over 1/2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, roughly ciliolate, about 1/3 the length of the cell; style subincluded; stigma peltate, just manifest; ovary glabrous.