Erica astroites Guthrie & Bolus

Entirely glabrous; branches pallid, longitudinally wrinkled (in the specimen before us 8-9 in. long); leaves 4-nate, spreading or reflexed, irregularly curved and bent round the branches, linear, acute, sulcate, glaucous; younger petioles ciliate, 6-7 lin. long, much exceeding the internodes; inflorescence axillary, flowers spreading at the ends of the branches, corolline; pedicels slender, 4-5 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 1-2 lin. long; sepals broad-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, pallid, with a darker keel on the upper half, 3 lin. long; corolla somewhat salver-shaped; tube narrow-ovoid, dry, rosy, 4 1/2 lin. long; segments large, stellate-spreading, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute (Like those of § Euryloma), paler than the tube, 3 1/2-4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide; filaments capillary, 4 1/2 lin. long; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, smooth, a little over 1/2 lin. long, minutely aristulate; pore 3/8 the length of the cell; awns situated above the middle of the cell, linear or tooth-like; style included, slender, thickened at the apex; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous; ovules obovate, with a white papery wing or margin.