Erica tenuipes Guthrie & Bolus

Laxly straggling, suberect, or perhaps twining; stouter branches up to 3/4 lin. in diam., glandular-pubescent, subviscid, very pallid; leaves 3-nate, spreading, shorter than the internodes, oblong or more rarely lanceolate, obtuse, thin or submembranous, thinly puberulous on both sides, gland-ciliate, margin only slightly recurved, midrib prominent but not large, 2-3 lin. long, up to about 1 lin. wide; flowers terminal, 3-nate? or umbellate? (most flowers dropped from the specimens); pedicels very slender, pubescent, viscidulous, persistent and elongating, 6-9 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, minute; sepals lanceolate, scarious, coloured, viscid, 3/4-1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or short-and wide-suburceolate, mouth neither contracted nor widened, diaphanous, viscid, glabrous, lilac, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments recurved, subdeltoid, obtuse, about 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments slender, equal, pallid; anthers included or just manifest, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong or dorsally curved and semiovate, 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/2 as long as the cell; style exserted, compressed; stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent, chiefly at the apex.