Erica pulvinata Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 1/2-1 ft. high; branches ascending, glabrous, roughly scarred and channelled by the cushions of old leaves; leaves scattered, or sometimes 4-6-nate, crowded, spreading or squarrose or reflexed, flexuous, commonly incurved towards the apex, linear, callous at the apex subpungent-mucronate, round-backed, sulcate, sometimes white-tomentose along the channel, thick, rigid, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long; inflorescence a short pseudo-raceme at or below the ends of the branches, sometimes crowded; flowers subcalycine; pedicels slender, 4-5 lin. long; bracts small, remote, almost basal; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, keeled, 2 lin. long; corolla broadish-urceolate, throat not much constricted, but gradually narrowed to the mouth, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers dorsifixed above the base, cuneate-ovate, subscaberulous, 2/5 lin. long, broad-aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subulate-acuminate, irregularly rough-edged or smooth, about 2/3 the length of the cells; style straight, shortly exserted; stigma capitate, 4-lobed; ovary glabrous.