Erica aspalathifolia Bolus

Diffuse, sometimes weak-growing, with, a few long subsimple erect or subdecurrent branches, 12-18 in. long, and a few short branchlets above, more or less setulose in all parts; leaves 3-4-nate or scattered, spreading or squarrose, crowded, very narrow-linear, acute, flattish and faintly sulcate below, ciliate with long white hairs, minutely puberulous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate, crowded on very short close branchlets and forming a dense pseudo-spike 6-8 in. long, 1/2 in. in diam., sometimes (in poorly grown specimens) 3-4 flowers simply terminal; pedicels puberulous, 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, foliaceous, 1 lin. long; sepals linear, acute, foliaceous, long-ciliate, 3/4-1 lin. long; corolla subampullaceous-tubular (somewhat inflated below) to tubular, sometimes gradually tapering to the apex, sometimes nearly equal and little or not at all contracted at the mouth, of thin texture, white (Wood), mostly 2 1/4-2 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, 1/5-1/4 the length of the tube; filaments only slightly curved below the anther; anthers included, broad-cuneate-oblong, widely rounded at the apex, scaberulous, 1/4 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns capillary, 2/3-3/4 the length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary hispidulous, chiefly on or towards the apex.