Erica macilenta Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches virgate, slender, few, sometimes quite simple, not prominently channelled between the leaf-cushions, naked below, leafy above, white-pubescent, glabrescent; leaves 4-nate, the lower erect and more distant, sometimes only slightly exceeding the internodes, the upper more spreading and more closely imbricate, linear, acute, sulcate, ciliate, 3-4 1/2 lin. long; inflorescence axillary (or sometimes terminal, on very short arrested branchlets ?) forming a dense ovoid pseudo-raceme, about 9 lin. long and wide, situated shortly beneath the ends of excurrent branches; flowers corolline, spreading horizontally; pedicels slender, 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, sepal-like, about 1 lin. long; sepals linear from a short ovate scarious ciliate base, leaf-like, keeled, acuminate, about 2 1/2 lin. long, reaching to 3/4 the length of the corolla-tube; corolla tubular-inflated below; tube about 3 lin. long, red or rosy; segments spreading, ovate, acute, from a narrow minutely unguiculate imbricating base, about 11/4 lin. long; anthers as in E. georgica, but slightly smaller; stigma minutely capitellate; ovules membranous-margined.