Erica brevicaulis Guthrie & Bolus

Apparently a dwarf stunted shrub, 3 in. high; caudex stout, about 1 1/4 lin. in diam., divided immediately into several rather stout main branches and very numerous ascending filiform branchlets, puberulous, glabrescent, marked with prominent scars of leaf-cushions; leaves opposite, erect, adpressed, the lower about as long as the internodes, the uppermost imbricate, not crowded, lanceolate, acute, thick, concave with a middle nerve above, sulcate below, glabrous, 3/4-1 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate? subcorolline; pedicels slender, mostly bent, red, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 inframedian, 1 basal, linear, 1 lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, keeled, concave, glabrous, glossy, red, 1 1/4 lin. long, reaching a little beyond the top of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-campanulate, or between that and broad-cyathiform, glabrous, veined, apparently red or crimson, nearly 1 1/2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, ovate, a little more than 1/2 the length of the tube, colour darkened towards the apex; filaments slightly dilated just below the anther; anthers included, manifest, sublateral, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, subobtuse, smooth, about 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests partially adherent at their base to the filament, then spreading-incurved, narrow-lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, with 2 or more incised teeth near the base, the whole about 1/3 the length of cell; style shortly exserted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary subglobose, shortly villous.