Erica comata Guthrie & Bolus

Branches densely and shortly tomentulose, at length glabrescent; the younger leaves, also the bracts and sepals ciliate and furnished with a tuft of rather long white hairs at the apex; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-subulate, sulcate, greyish-pubescent, ciliate, at length naked; petiole red, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers on short branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels woolly, scarcely 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, incurved, usually lax and spreading, oblanceolate, acute, keeled, ciliate, reddish, 3/4-1 1/4 lin. long; sepals somewhat lax and incurved, suborbicular, very concave, keeled, the keel red, the rest hyaline, prominently and somewhat rigidly ciliate, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, apparently red, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long; segments erect, broadly rounded, about as long as the tube or a little less; filaments linear, equal, about as long as the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed well above the base, broadly oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, ciliolate, dark-coloured, under 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; stigma simple; ovary depressed-obconic, wider than its length, silky-villous.