Erica umbelliflora Klotzsch ex Benth.

Branches cano-pubescent with minutely plumose hairs; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, glossy, thick, coriaceous, mostly 1-1 1/2 (occasionally 2-3, Bentham) lin. long; flowers in few-flowered umbels, more or less viscid; pedicels floccose with minutely plumose hairs, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat spreading, broad-ovate or suborbicular, shortly acute, keeled in the upper half, coriaceous, margins scarious, concave, horn-coloured, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but larger and more distinctly, but shortly, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long and nearly as wide, not reaching half the height of the corolla; corolla subglobose, subtetragonous, shortly tapering to the apex, scarcely constricted at the throat, about 1 3/4 lin. long; segments (in the dried state) connivent, incurved, broad, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed considerably above the base, oblong, obtuse, nearly 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary depressed, much wider than its length, glabrous.