Erica tragulifera Salisb.

Somewhat slender, with the habit, general appearance and the leaves of the preceding; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1-2 lin. long; bracts approximate, scarious, viscid; sepals spreading or erect, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subscarious, viscid, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, tapering gradually to the constricted throat, viscid, glabrous, sometimes with 8 longitudinal channels, white, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, short; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon the thickened projecting connective, oblong, smooth, ciliate below, aristate; cells deeply partite and at length separating down to the connective at the base, nearly 1/2 lin. long; pore 2/3-3/4 the length of the cell; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along the projecting connective, spreading, as long as in the preceding species [E. umbelliflora]; style included, straight, equal to the apex; stigma small, subsimple or capitellate; ovary densely hirsute.