Erica setacea Andrews

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches often flexuous, tomentose and also usually more or less floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves incurved-erect, oblong, blunt, thick, rigid, deeply sulcate or rarely subopen-backed, mostly roughly setose-hispid, and also pubescent or floccose-tomontose, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers sometimes lateral by arrest of the branchlets; pedicels tomentose, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals somewhat lax, slightly coherent at the base, foliaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, keeled, puborulous and sotose-ciliate, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; corolla cyathiforim or subcampanulate-cyathiform, mouth scarcely widened, usually glabrous, more rarely minutely puberulous or velutinous, whitish, pale yellow or pink, 3/4-1 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, 1/2-2/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, often just manifest, oblong, obtuse, oblique at the base, smooth, pale brown, 1/2 lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, ciliate, mostly 1/5-1/3 the length of the cell, sometimes more minute and caducous; style shortly exserted; stigma capitate, 4-lobed, rather large; ovary hispidulous or glabrous.