Erica crateriformis Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 14 in. or more high; branchlets slender, floccose with minutely plumose hairs; leaves erect, adpressed, oblong, keeled, thickish, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; flowers on short lateral branchlets; pedicels 3/4 lin. long; bracts subremote, foliaceous, rather long; sepals lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious-edged, ciliate, 1/2 lin. long, not quite reaching to the height of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, mouth widened, nearly 1 lin. long; segments erect, subdeltoid, obtuse, 1/2-2/3 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, with a sharp semicircular bend about the middle, about 1 1/2 times the length of the anther; anthers subincluded, just manifest, broad-elliptic, very obtuse, smooth, about 1/2 lin. long, aristulate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns very minute, curved outwards, and not reaching to the base of the cell, caducous; style exserted, slender; stigma capitate, lobulate, rather large; ovary globose, glabrous.