Erica maderi Guthrie & Bolus

6-12 in. high; branches ascending, rather stout, pubescent; leaves 4-nate or scattered, irregular, erect or subspreading, crowded, imbricate, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, sulcate, pubescent or glabrous, ciliate with subplumose hairs (as are the bracts and sepals), or becoming naked, 2-3 lin. long; heads erect or slightly cernuous, globose or semiglobose, 10-23-flowered, 7-10 lin. in diameter; pedicels 1/2-1 lin. long; lower bract long and sometimes foliaceous (chiefly so in the outer flowers of the head), 2-3 1/2 lin. long, two upper much smaller, submembranous, pubescent; sepals from a broader ovate or lanceolate base, very acuminate, membranous, pubescent, coloured, 3/4-1 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, obliquely inflated, glabrous, white to rosy, 2 1/2-5 lin. long; segments subspreading, 1/6-1/4 the length of the tube; anthers included, cuneate to oblong-cuneate, obtuse, smooth, 2/5 to nearly 1/2 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns setiform or subulate, 1/2-3/4 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.