Erica macrophylla Klotzsch ex Benth.

Procumbent or sometimes suberect ?; branches stout, rigid, villous; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, ovate, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, bullate-convex, and densely villous with long hairs on the upper surface, closely pale tomentose below, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long including the rather long petiole; flowers terminal, clustered or sometimes (acc. to Bentham) also axillary; pedicels stoutish, 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 very small, 1 larger; sepals oblong, in opposite pairs, 2 longer and 2 shorter, or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, viscid, coloured, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, mouth contracted, viscid, minutely puberulous or glabrous, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; segments suberect, 1/6-1/5 as long as the tube; anthers sub-exserted, sublateral, broad-linear, about 2/3 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/2 as long as the cell; style exserted, decurved; stigma capitate; ovary densely and closely white-woolly.