Erica chlorosepala Benth.

Prostrate (Burchell), or decumbent (Masson & Sehlechter); branches straggling, slender, rigid, pallid or yellowish, minutely downy, channelled between the leaf-cushions, and the older covered with their persistent scars, 4 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, elliptic-oblong, subacute, rather flat, but rather thick and coriaceous, often shrinking and wrinkled in drying, sulcate, glabrous, the stout pallid petiole ciliate, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; flowers subaxilltiry, solitary, the pedicels subtended at the base by several pallid bract-like aborted leaves, forming a short pseudo-raceme below the ends of excurrent branches, calycine; pedicels curved, tomentulose, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, like the sepals but smaller, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, keeled in the upper half, cartilaginous, rigid, concave, pale-margined, white or yellowish (or acc. to Bentham, subfoliaceous, greenish), nearly 2 1/2 lin. long, reaching to a little below the top of the corolla-tube; corolla ovoid-urceolate, well-contracted at the throat, 'golden-yellow' (Schlechter), 2 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading-recurved, ovate-orbicular, under 1 lin. long, the whole 3 1/2 lin. long; anthers bluntly subtriangular or obliquely subovate, obtuse, membranous, pallid; cells deeply partite, nearly 1/3 lin. long, aristate; pore 3/8 the length of the cell; awns affixed a little above the base of the cell, straightly dependent, setiform, nearly as long as the cells; style stout, clavate, 4-gonous; stigma simple or conical; ovary finely puberulous, dark-coloured; ovules lenticular, or at least compressed, immarginate.