Erica turrisbabylonica H.A.Baker

Erect subvirgate shrub to about 30 cm in height. Branches villous-pubescent at first, glabrescent. Leaves 4-nate, 4-7 mm long, erect-spreading, imbricate at first, later the internodes much longer than the leaves, linear-subulate, acute, sulcate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, ciliate with longish, fine white hairs. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; peduncles about 11 mm long, villous-pubescent; bracts 2, about 4-5 mm long, median, foliaceous. Sepals about 8 mm long, somewhat variable in shape, mostly foliaceous but some with a small ovate, scarious-edged base. Corolla-tube about 1-6 cm long, at first narrow-tubular and slightly inflated at the throat, gradually becoming inflated below in varying degrees and appearing tubular-ampullaceous after maturity, dry, minutely but copiosely hispid, at first green, becoming purplish-red; lobes 7 mm long x 3 mm wide, stellately spreading at maturity, ovate acute with a narrow but not imbricating base, coloured outside as corolla-tube, inside with a white indumentum. Filaments slender, sigmoid near the apex; anthers included, less than 1 mm long, lateral, oblong, obtuse, muticous; pore about half the length of the cell. Ovary elongate, glabrous; style manifest; stigma capitate.