Erica trichophylla Benth.

Erect, slender, 6-14 in. high; branches chiefly virgate, the ultimate very slender, hispidulous, rusty red; leaves from suberect and imbricate above to spreading below, the lowest subsquarrose, linear, semi-terete, very slender, pubescent, glabrescent, about 1 lin. long; flowers sub-4-nate; pedicels slender, about 1/2-3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, one sometimes exceeding the pedicel; sepals linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, green-keeled, scarious-edged, ciliate, about 1 lin. long, or little shorter than the corolla; corolla broad-cyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, somewhat hyaline, white, 1 1/4 lin. long; segments erect, from 1/2 as long to as long as the tube; anthers included, very straight, narrow-oblong, pallid, smooth, glabrous, nearly 1/3 lin. long, aristate; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; awns entire, about 1/3 the length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma capitellate, very small; ovary glabrous.