Erica tegulifolia Salisb.

Stout, erect, 1 1/2-2 1/2 ft. high; branches nearly straight, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, erect and closely imbricate, or spreading, mostly incurved, linear or oblong, to broad-elliptic, obtuse, ciliolate, sulcate, keeled, mostly glabrous (or 'pubescent', Salisbury), 1 1/2-3 lin. long, the floral a little larger, coloured, sepaloid; flowers 3-nate (in our wild specimens, but described by Andrews from cultivated plants as 'umbellate 3-6-nate'), sometimes abundant and clustered; pedicels pubescent, red, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, strongly keeled, incurved and deeply concave, at the apex, scarious, rigid, coloured, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger, much wrinkled, 2 1/2 lin. long, reaching to 2/3-3/4 of the height of the corolla; corolla urceolate or globose-urceolate, slightly contracted at the throat, 4-gonous at the base, glabrous, rosy-red, about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, at length connivent, ovate, 2/3-7/8 the length of the tube; filaments tapering upwards from a broader base, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, subcuneate, acute, about 5/8 lin. long, crested; pore 3/4-7/8 the length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or suborbicular, spreading, free, margin toothed, as long as or longer than the cells; style included, thickened towards the apex, 4-gonous; stigma simple; ovary glabrous.