Erica unilateralis Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, 6-12 in. high; branches puberulous, slender, straight or flexuous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate (rarely 4-nate ?); pedicels puberulous, about 2 lin. long; bracts approximate or sometimes subremote, subscarious, small; sepals obovate or ovate, acute, keeled, glabrous, scarious, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; corolla variable, subtubular, tubular-campanulate and not contracted or widened at the mouth, suburceolate and slightly contracted in the throat, or subovoid and more contracted at the mouth, glabrous, dry, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments erect, 1/5-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers subexserted, subterminal or sometimes sublateral, linear-clavate, obtuse, about 1/2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns very narrow, dark-coloured, connate with the filament for a length somewhat greater than that of the cells and terminating in short spreading free points; style exserted, slender; stigma subsimple; ovary puberulous.