Erica curtophylla Guthrie & Bolus

Probably under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, incurved and leafy in the upper portion, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved, oblong, very obtuse, flat or concave above, rounded and sulcate beneath, thick, rigid, glabrous, smooth, pallid, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; inflorescence a subdense pseudoraceme towards the ends of the branches; flowers mostly binate, small; pedicels slender, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, coloured, shorter than the corolla-tube, concave, sub-scarious, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla from urceolate-cyathiform to campanulate, slightly contracted at the throat and expanded at the mouth, or subequal, glabrous, dry, minutely pitted, pale red, about 1 lin. long; segments about 1/2 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed close to the base, longitudinally semiovate, smooth, 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma rather large, subcapitate or sometimes subpeltate; ovary glabrous.