Erica condensata Benth.

Branches stoutish, erect, puberulous, 10 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, erect or subincurved-spreading, crowded, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, corolline; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, all sepal-like, or the lower sometimes longer and equalling the sepals; sepals broad-ovate or ovate-rhomboid, acute, cuspidate-keeled, thick, subcoriaceous, somewhat viscid (Bentham), 3/4-1 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate-cyathiform (or 'ovate', Bentham), equal or slightly widened at the mouth, or (in Burchell's type specimens, apparently over mature) contracted towards the apex, 4-foveolate at the base, about 2 lin. long; segments variable in length, about 1/4 the length of the tube; filaments nearly straight; anthers oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, muticous; cells deeply parted, about 1/2 lin. long; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.