Erica tomentosa Salisb.

Erect, about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, paniculate, tomentose-pubescent, densely many-flowered; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear, obtuse, sulcate, puberulous, glabrescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts small, remote; sepals narrow-lanceolate to ovate, pubescent, coloured, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate or narrow-urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, densely and shortly pubescent, almost velvety, dull red to lilac, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; limb very short; segments spreading; filaments capillary, bent at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, broad oblong, very obtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns short, subulate, sometimes recurved upwards, the apices touching the back of the anther; style subexserted, stigma capitate; ovary from pubescent to subglabrous.