Erica gysbertii Guthrie & Bolus

Erect; branches slender, subvirgate; leaves 4-nate, erect or slightly spreading, imbricate, obtuse, thick, glabrous, sparsely ciliate with thickish white caducous hairs, and tipped with a long brown bristle, including the longish petiole 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; umbels 3-4-flowered; pedicels slender, dark, 2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, linear, ciliate and bristle-tipped with hairs much longer than themselves; sepals linear, ciliate and tipped like the bracts, 1 1/2 lin. long, hairs sometimes 3 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular, only slightly inflated, suddenly constricted at the throat, viscidulous; tube 4 lin. long, rosy; throat purple; limb paler; segments ovate, acuminate, 1 lin. long; filaments capillary, dilated towards and near the anther; anthers semiovate, subacute, curved or subcrescent-shaped, prognathous, bilobed at the base, pallid, muticous, little exceeding 1/2 lin. long; ovary elongate, shortly stipitate.