Erica virginalis Klotzsch ex Benth.

Apparently a small slender plant, with filiform, white-tomentulose branches ('quite glabrous', Bentham); leaves opposite, erect, adpressed, oblong, obtuse, keeled, glabrous, glossy, under 1 lin. long; flowers 2-nate, corolline; pedicels decurved, nearly 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, small; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, adpressed, round-backed and sulcate, or 'keeled,' thickish, under 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, 4-gonous, 'red,' 2 lin. long; limb erect or 'stellate-spreading ?' (Bentham); segments rounded, imbricate at the base, the length of the tube; filaments slender, tapering to the apex, about 1 1/3 lin. long; anthers narrow-oblong, obtuse, somewhat rough, under 2/5 lin. long, crested; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; crests ovate, bluntish, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style apparently included; ovary sessile, glabrous.