Erica tetrathecoides Benth.

Diffuse, entirely glabrous, probably under a foot high; branches, pedicels and sepals smooth and somewhat glossy; branches slender, flexuous, straggling, distantly leafy above, naked below; leaves notably scanty and mostly shorter than the internodes, spreading, incurved, linear-subterete, acute, 3-4 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, or a few also axillary at the ends of the branches, spreading or cernuous, corolline; pedicels very slender, 3-4 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, very small, 2 above the middle, 1 basal; sepals subspreading, oblong, scarious, with a thick keel far-excurrent at the apex, the whole 2 lin. long; corolla obconic, 2 1/2-3 lin. long, mouth much widened; segments continuous, broadly rounded, equal to the tube or somewhat longer; filaments rather broad, with a strong median nerve; anthers included, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate; cell produced beyond the pore for about 3/4 the length of the latter, papillose, minutely ciliolate on the margins, fox-coloured, 1/2-1 lin. long, muticous; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous.