Erica amatolensis E.G.H.Oliv.

Very densely branched; branchlets puberulous, becoming glabrous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, including the petiole 3/4-1 1/4 lin. long, 1/5 lin. broad, linear, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate when young; flowers in terminal clusters of 3-9; pedicels 1/3-1/2 lin. long, minutely puberulous; sepals 4, unequal, minutely ciliate, the larger 1/3-3/5 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, more or less leaf-like, at least at the apex, the others about half as long and more narrowed to the obtuse apex; corolla campanulate, glabrous; tube 1/2 lin. long; lobes erect, about 1/4 lin. long, rounded; stamens 4, equalling the corolla; filaments 2/5 lin. long, free, filiform; anthers nearly 1/3 lin. long and as much in breadth at the top, cuneate-subquadrate, bifid to half-way down, very obtuse, with awn-like spurs at the base, slightly and very minutely scabrid; ovary subglobose, adpressed, pubescent; style very much exserted, 1 lin. long; stigma broadly obconic, triangular, 1/6 lin. in diam.; ovules about 8 in each cell.