Erica trichophora Benth.

Erect, 12-14 in. high or more; branches virgate, pubescent, with longer setose hairs intermixed; leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading, linear, obtuse, slender, keeled, hirsute, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers usually solitary in the specimens seen, but occasionally 2-nate and probably normally 4-nate; pedicels rather stout, 1/4 lin. long; bracts subbasal, one long linear, two very short; sepals linear, acuminate, keeled, foliaceous from an ovate scarious denticulate-edged coloured base, pubescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular-obconic or suburceolate-cyathiform, widened to the mouth, more or less copiously clothed with coarse white hairs, about 3 lin. long; limb erect; segments rounded, about 1/5 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, cuneate-oblong, barely 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma very small, subsimple; ovary oblate-spheroidal, glabrous.