Erica maritima Guthrie & Bolus

Stem stout, much and intricately branched; branches divaricate, rigid, cinereo-puberulous, soon glabrescent; leaves erect, subadpressed, only a little longer than the internodes, oblong, subacute, slightly curved from the middle outwards, sulcate, thickish, glabrous, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers in few-flowered clusters at the ends of lateral branchlets; pedicels about 1/2 lin. long; bracts basal or nearly so, small, subscarious, shining; sepals lanceolate, subacute, subscarious, concave, rigid, keel-tipped, glabrous, 1/3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, widened to the mouth, veined, glabrous, about 5/8 lin. long; segments erect, semi-ovate, narrowed to the apex but scarcely acute, about 2/3 the length of the tube; filaments linear, rather broad, veined, in length equalling the anther; anthers subexserted, ovate, obtuse, smooth, pale brown, membranous, from 1/4-1/3 lin. long, mutinous; pore broad-elliptical, large for the section, about 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma peltate; ovary minutely hispidulous.