Erica deflexa [forbes]

Branches slender, tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading to subsquarrose, linear, obtuse, thick, convex on the upper side with rounded back and margins, deeply sulcate, the younger ciliate, hirtulous or glabrous, shining, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; inflorescence axillary; flowers solitary or scanty and subdistant towards the ends of the branches, corolline or sometimes subcorolline; pedicels decurved, hirtulous, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals narrow-lanceolate or oblong, subacute, foliaceous, margins revolute and thickened at the apex, 3/4-1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform-obconic, subtetragonous, glabrous, dry, 'white,' about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments continuous, rather large, rounded, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers included (or 'subexserted', Sinclair), dorsifixed near the base, narrow-oblong, obtuse; cells parted to the base, membranous, smooth, pallid, almost 2/5 lin. long (3 1/2 times longer than their width in the middle), aristate; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; awns setiform, rough-edged, over 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary obovate, shortly and sparsely puberulous, or 'glabrous', Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680.