Erica trichroma Benth.

Erect, about 1 ft. high; branches slender, irregularly spreading, 6-8 in. high; leaves 3-nate, erect and adpressed, or spreading, somewhat imbricate, or only as long as the internodes, linear, acute or obtuse, glabrous, ciliate, about 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, gland-ciliate, small; sepals linear, obtuse, margins incurved and gland-ciliate, foliaceous, subviscid, red, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; corolla tubular-ovoid, inflated below the middle, attenuate above, very minutely tuberculate-hispid, viscidulous, rosy and purple, 3-4 lin. long; segments erect, scarcely (in the dried state) stellate-spreading; filaments, for the greater part of their length, adherent to the corolla-tube; anthers dorsifixed, semi-ovate, straight, not prognathous and scarcely bilobed at the base, pallid, 1/4-1/3 lin. long, subdecurrent-aristate, or free aristate; awns much shorter than the cell, spreading; style included; ovary on a stipe of variable length, glabrous, cells 2-4-ovuled.