Erica irrorata Guthrie & Bolus

Low, erect shrublet up to 45 cm (1 1/2 ft) or so. Branches decumbent from the base, ascending, subvirgate, rusty brown, covered as are the leaves, peduncles, bracts and sepals with gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 6-8 mm long, 3-nate or scattered and crowded on the lower parts of the branches, solitary on the upper parts, spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, bluntish, sulcate to subopenbacked, puberulous as well as gland-hispid, the axils gemmiferous. Flowers axillary, solitary and, with the lengthening internode, forming a long, loose raceme 8-14 mm long; peduncles slender 8-12 mm long; bracts two, 3 mm long, subapproximate to median. Sepals 4-5 mm long, oblong or lanceolate, foliaceous and widely sulcate, subacute. Corolla 12-16 mm long, tubular, wider at the base, gradually but slightly attenuated upwards, again widened below the throat and constricted above it, pubescent, dry, the tube rosy, the throat purple; lobes cordate-reniform, spreading, twice as long as wide, pallid. Filaments filiform; anthers included, 2 mm long, lateral, cuneate, acute, appendiculate; pore small; crests crimson, ovate, acuminate, lacerate, about 1/2 the length of the cell. Ovary subglobular or turbinate, glabrous; style shortly exserted; stigma capitate.