Erica gracilipes Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 3 ft. or more high; glabrous, except the puberulous pedicels; branches stout, ascending, mostly marked with the scars of prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, erect-incurved, imbricate, not very crowded, linear, obtuse or subacute, round-backed, faintly sulcate, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 1-3 pseudo-axillary, on short arrested branchlets, somewhat copious, calycine; pedicels spreading, slender, curved; puberulous, red, 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 submedian, 1 nearly basal, lanceolate, scarious, under 1 lin. long; sepals adpressed, imbricate for about 1/2 their length, ovate, acute, shortly keel-tipped, cartilaginous, coloured, rosy, wrinkled when dried, reaching to the top of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, slightly constricted at the throat, 4-gonous, rosy, 1 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, about 1/3 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, subterminal, longitudinally semi-lanceolate, the dorsal margin curved, acute, dark-coloured; cell produced beyond the pore, 7/8 lin. long, very shortly aristulate at the base; pore nearly 1/3 the length of the cell; awns free, about 1/8 of the cell in length; style slender, well-exserted, dilated near the apex; stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous.