Erica spectabilis Klotzsch ex Benth.

Stout, erect; branches straight or flexuous, cano-puberulous, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, usually erect-incurved, imbricate, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, sulcate, thick, glossy or minutely puberulous, gland-ciliolate, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels spreading, gland-pubescent, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; bracts sub-remote or remote, sepal-like, whitish; sepals ovate or subobovate, obtuse, keel-tipped, gland-ciliolate, glabrous, white, reaching to about 1/2 the height of the corolla, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, moderately contracted at the throat, glabrous, viscidulous or nearly dry, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; segments short, erect, rounded; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, subtriangular-cuneate or oblong, obtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2/5 lin. long, decurrent-aristate; pore 7/8 the length of the cell; awns decurrent along the produced widened deflexed dark-coloured connective, free for about 1/2 their length, ciliate or scaberulous, nearly as long as or somewhat exceeding the cells; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous, pallid on a dark disk.