Erica maesta Bolus

Erect, 5-7 ft. high; branches subvirgate, ashy-grey pubescent, sometimes also pilose with longer white hairs, glabrescent; leaves erect-spreading, subimbricate, linear, subacute, thick, sulcate, pubescent, ashy-grey, ciliate with a few longer tubercle-based hairs, the older glabrescent, 1-2 lin. long; flowers solitary or binate; pedicels pubescent, under 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, about 1/2 the length of the corolla; corolla cyathiform, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, glabrous, sordid greenish-yellow, 1/2-3/4 lin. or rarely nearly 1 lin. long; segments connivent after maturity, from 1/2 to as long as the tube; filaments capillary; anthers subincluded, manifest, subterminal, tapering to the base, narrow-subobovate, smooth, nearly 1/3 lin. long, muticous; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style elongating, at length exserted; stigma large, cyathiform; ovary globose, pallid, glabrous except for a few scattered hairs on the summit.