Erica tubercularis Salisb.

Apparently a dwarf shrub, glabrous; branches slender, subflexuous, spreading; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, adpressed, linear-oblong, acute, glabrous, thick, concave above, cartilagineo-serrulate, 3/4-1 lin. long; flowers 2-3-nate, or more rarely subumbellate; pedicels 1/2 lin. long, downy; bracts 3, minute; sepals lanceolate-linear, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid, subacute at the discoloured apex, more or less covered with minute wart-like tubercles, rosy, about 2 lin. long; segments erect and connivent (in the dried state), very short; anthers dorsi-fixed, ovate, muticous, about 1/5 lin. long; ovary on a slender stipe exceeding it in length; ovules 2 (or sometimes by abortion 1) in each cell.