Erica trichadenia Bolus

Erect, much-branched, rough, 2-3 ft. high; branches flexuous or divaricate, pubescent and glandular-setose; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, sulcate to open-backed, puberulous and ciliate with rigid gland-tipped hairs, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers umbellate, 3-7-flowered; pedicels glandular-pubescent, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, mostly very small, sometimes one larger and foliaceous, or solitary; sepals linear-oblong, acute, pubescent and gland-ciliate, 1 lin. long; corolla narrow-campanulate, mouth slightly widened, sparsely and very minutely hispidulous, pale flesh-coloured, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments rounded, about 1/3-1/2 the length of the tube; anthers included, subterminal, oblong, tapering much to the filament at the base, 1/2 lin. long, subulate-aristate; awns smooth; style exserted, rather stout, curved over to an angle of 90°, red; ovary pubescent.