Erica senilis Klotzsch ex Benth.

Procumbent or erect, 6-8 in. high; branches some ascending, some spreading with many ascending branchlets, 2-3 in. long, pubescent; leaves very uniformly erect-incurved, adpressed, scarcely longer than the internodes, oblong-lanceolate, deeply sulcate, flat and glabrous above, finely downy and hispid with tubercle-based hairs below, at length subglabrescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long, a few of the upper leaves under the heads enlarged, bract-like and discoloured; heads hemispherical, cernuous, 4-4 1/2 lin. wide at the top, about 4-flowered; pedicels 3/4 lin. long; bracts lanceolate, like the sepals thickly beset in the upper part with bristly straight hairs, 2 1/4 lin. long; sepals narrow-linear, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla broad-ovoid or subglobose, puberulous, pale yellow, 1 1/2 lin. long; segments large, rounded, ciliolate, about equal to the tube; filaments broad; anthers subexserted, lateral, narrow-elliptic or longitudinally semiovate, smooth, membranous, about 3/5 lin. long, crested; pore 3/4 the length of the cell; crests suborbicular, incised, scabrid, dark coloured, 1/2 the length of the cell; style far exserted, straight, tapering upwards, 3 lin. long; stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent.