Erica trachysantha Bolus

Erect, rather slender, not much branched, under 1 ft. high; branches (except in the lowest parts), under surface of the leaves, pedicels and especially the sepals, densely hirsute with shaggy dirty-white hairs; leaves crowded, fasciculate in tufts, shorter or a little longer than the internodes, erect-incurved, ovate-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, with reflexed wide flattish margins, subglabrous on the upper surface, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers mostly solitary on short branchlets, spreading, erect or cernuous, calycine; pedicels 4-6 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, basal, very small; sepals slightly united at the base, ovate, acute, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; segments equal to or a little longer than the tube; anthers included, subulate or sublanceolate, acuminate, recurved, 1 lin. long; pore 1/4-1/5 the length of the cell; style just exserted; stigma small, capitellate or subsimple; ovary subconic, hispidulous.