Erica propinqua Guthrie & Bolus

3-4 ft. high; branches white-pubescent, glabrescent, angled and the older scarred by prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, either erect, adpressed and about as long as the internodes, or somewhat spreading, oblong, or narrow-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate or umbellate; pedicels white-tomentose, from 2-10 lin. long, apparently elongating during and after flowering; bracts mostly remote, rarely subapproximate, lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled, scarious, very concave, incurved, 1-2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broader, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, only slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous, rosy-red, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, oblong, obtuse, with usually more or less wide sinuses which are sometimes obtuse or semicircular at the base, from 1/2-3/4 the length of the tube; anthers subincluded, or reaching above the corolla-tube, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells deeply partite, oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, blackish, from 1/2 to nearly 2/3 lin. long, aristate; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; awns decurrent for over 1/2 their length, then free and spreading, subulate, acute, about 1/2 as long as the cells; style exserted; stigma subclavate, small; ovary glabrous.