Erica selaginifolia Salisb.

Erect, 1 1/2 ft. or more high; branches in curved-erect, tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, imbricate, linear-trigonous, blunt, glabrous, minutely gland-ciliolate, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels puberulous, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, subviscidulous, coloured, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but ovate, less acuminate, not imbricate in the fully matured flower, with a peculiar depression in the centre at the base, nearly 1 1/2 lin. long, reaching as high as 1/2-2/3 of the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, narrowed not much constricted at the throat, 4-gonous towards the base, sub-viscidulous, rosy red, 1 3/4-2 lin. long; limb slightly spreading, broad and rounded, about 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments from a broader base tapering upwards, not much longer than the ovary; anthers included, or scarcely exceeding the corolla-tube, dorsifixed near the base; cells deeply parted, suboblong, obtuse or subacute, brown, under 1/2 lin. long, crested; crests ovate-lanceolate, denticulate, pale brown, longer than the cells; style subincluded; stigma subsimple, small; ovary glabrous.