Erica gillii Benth.

Branches floccose with minute compound, distantly subplumose greyish hairs; leaves subrecurved, spreading, imbricate and crowded (on the ultimate branchlets), linear-trigonous, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, pallid, 1 1/2 lin. (or probably more) long; pedicels floccose, 2 lin. long; flowers calycine; bracts subremote, the uppermost one only imbricating the sepals, lax and somewhat spreading, ovate, acute, complicate, keeled, membranous, pallid, about 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and flatter, broad-ovate or suborbicular, imbricate above the base, 1 5/8 lin. long, by 1 1/2 lin. wide, reaching a little beyond the top of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, 2 lin. long; segments erect, broadly rounded, about 2/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, subcuneate, acute, scaberulous or roughly papillose, nearly black, 5/8. lin. long; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell, placed in the middle of the cell; style slender, exserted; stigma minute, obconic or subsimple; ovary puberulous.