Erica sphaerocephala Wendl. ex Benth.

Erect, about 1 ft. high; branches ascending, slender, and mostly straight, sometimes subvirgate, pubescent, occasionally with soft plumose hairs under the leaf-cushions, leaves, bracts and sepals often ciliate with the same; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading, straight or incurved, densely imbricate or as long as or shorter than the internodes, linear to narrow-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, ciliate or naked, pubescent or glabrous, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; heads subglobose, few-to (in finer specimens) 28-flowered, 4-6 1/2 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1/2-3/4 lin. long; bracts, the lower larger and more or less leaf-like, the upper smaller and membranous; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, ciliate and terminated by a long setiform awn, membranous, coloured, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; corolla urceolate, those of the outer flowers obliquely inflated, glabrous, pale to deep rosy, 21/4-3 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 1/6-1/5 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, sometimes flexuous; anthers included, cuneate-oblong or oblong and incurved, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, 2/5 lin. long, crested or crested-aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, notched at the base, about 3/4 the length of the cell; style included, or just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.