Erica ixanthera Benth.

Decumbent, glabrous; branches slender, simple, curved, distantly leafy, 6 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, spreading, curved, distant, but mostly longer than the internodes, slender, linear, obtuse, subcallous at the apex, flattish above, sulcate below, somewhat thin, shining, 3-5 lin. long; flowers terminal, umbellate, 5-8-flowered (or sometimes subracemose with the terminal branch continued, Bentham); pedicels slender, spreading, 3-6 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, subacute, keel-tipped, thick, rigid, viscid, about 1 lin. long; corolla 'urceolate-globose' (Bentham) or suboblate-urceolate, throat slightly constricted, viscid, about 2 lin. long, 2 1/2 lin. wide; segments rather large, 1/2 the length of the tube, suberect; filaments subequal, bent in a simple semicircular curve round and close to the ovary; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon a prolongation of the connective, spreading at nearly a right angle from the cell, oblong, pubescent, about 3/5 lin. long; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns decurrent along the connective with free points (of about 1/2 lin. long), the whole about as long as, or sometimes much exceeding, the cells; style included; ovary oblate, much depressed, width twice the length, lobed, glabrous.