Erica marlothii Bolus

Diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branches sometimes rather stout, divaricate, rigid, pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, close-set, ovate, open-backed, margins reflexed, pubescent, sparsely ciliate, 1 lin. or less long; flowers terminal, solitary; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals broad-ovate, thick, viscid, villous, 3/4 lin. long; corolla ovoid in bud, becoming oblate-urceolate-depressed; upper part of the tube falling in; segments about 1/4 the length of the tube, connivent with upturned apices closely surrounding the exserted filaments and style, with 4 depressions at the base as in E. baccans, mouth much contracted; after the swelling of the ovary, the corolla assumes the ordinary urceolate shape, pubescent, 2 lin. long, about the same in width; filaments rather broad, equal, bent inwards over the ovary, about 2 lin. long, far exserted; anthers terminal or subterminal, oblong, or (from the pore being nearly the length of the cell) somewhat earshaped; cells deeply partite, about 2/3 lin. long, muticous; style far exserted, hooked and thinly pubescent near the apex; stigma capitate; ovary pubescent.