Erica argyraea Guthrie & Bolus

Habit straggling and diffuse, with a general silvery aspect, a few inches high; branches pubescent, a few inches long; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, narrow-ovate to oblong, subobtuse, open-backed, copiously but shortly pilose, paler beneath, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels puberulous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts very remote, sometimes basal, very small; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, glandular-pubescent and ciliate, viscidulous, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla cyathiform to suburceolate-cyathiform, mouth not (or very slightly) contracted, puberulous, white to pale rosy, 2-2 1/2 by 1 1/2 lin.; segments erect, rounded, small; filaments tapering upwards; anthers included, semiovate or sub-cuneate, dark-coloured, 1/2 lin. long, narrow crested; crests cuspidate and only slightly denticulate on the margin; style well exserted, curved above; ovary villous.