Erica tysonii Bolus

Diffuse, decumbent, a few in. high; branches numerous, straggling, slender but woody and rigid, scabrid-hispid or glabrescent, 6-12 in. long; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear or narrow-lanceolate, sulcate, viscidulous, scabrid-hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent, about 1 lin. long; flowers axillary, 3-nate; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblong or obovate, foliaceous; sepals oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, foliaceous, gland-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla tubular-campanulate, slightly widened to the mouth, generally more or less (sometimes strongly) tetragonous, viscidulous, purple (Evans), 1 1/4-2 lin. long; segments broad, erect-spreading, from 2/3-3/4 the length of the tube; anthers subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above the base, oblong, scaberulous, ciliolate, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; pore 1/3-1/2 the length of the cell; awns ciliolate, curved, about 1/3-2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.