Acmadenia bodkinii (Schltr.) Strid

Shrubs up to 0.7 m tall, usually much less, fairly erect, fairly well branched, single-stemmed at base. Branches short, more or less arising in clusters of 2 to 6, fairly erect, becoming glabrous; leaf scars not prominent. Branchlets short, erect, pubescent, bearing scattered stalked glands, well clothed with leaves. Leaves 1 mm long overall including the petiole 1.5 mm long, 3 mm broad, obovate, obtuse, alternate, sub-imbricate, adpressed towards the base, recurved above, sub-complicate; sparsely pubescent with occasional stalked glands on both surfaces; margins glandular-dentate, apical gland much larger. Inflorescence solitary or twin, terminal; flowers 18 mm diam., petals whitish, spreading, with calyx lobes protruding between the petals. Appendage: at the apex of each branchlet, beside the flower and the other bud or incipient shoot, there is a terminal process which may be called a caudal appendage 4.5 mm long, terete, pubescent, reddened above with a discoid gland at the apex. Bract 5.2 mm long, 1 mm broad, linear-oblong, acute, white below, green above; midrib prominent; apex somewhat viscid with a discoid gland; margins with large stalked discoid glands above and many smaller ones below; adaxial surface pubescent; abaxial surface pubescent with erect hairs well spaced out and with small stalked glands scattered in between. Bracteoles two, 4.7 mm long, 1 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, viscid, otherwise similar to the bract. Calyx lobes five, 5 mm long, 2 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, viscid; apex with a stalked discoid gland; margins above with 4-6 similar stalked glands to either side of the apex, below villous ciliate; sparsely pubescent on both surfaces mainly towards the apex, purplish above, distinctly veined below; midrib with stalked glands to either side. Petals five, 8.5-9 mm long overall; limb 6.5-7 mm long, 6.2-6.8 mm broad, obcordate, emarginate, apiculate, glabrous, white, spreading, minutely gland-dotted along the pink midrib; claw 2 mm long, 1 mm broad, glabrous. Staminodes five, 0.5 mm long, deltoid, apex with a minute gland, glabrous, decurrent below buttressing the disc. Filaments five, becoming 1.2 mm long, narrowly deltoid, glabrous, decurrent below buttressing the disc after the manner of an Adenandra. Anthers five, 1.7 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, reddened; apical gland minute, clasped between the incurved apices of the thecae. Pollen 41 µ long, 21 µ broad, ellipsoid. Disc obvallate, exceeds the ovary, level above, reddened, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.2 mm diam., simple, dark purple. Style at first deflexed, becoming erect 1.6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.9 mm long, 1.3 mm diam., densely covered with stalked glands. As the ovary develops it produces a most fantastic array of hairy stalked glands. Fruit 5-carpellate, each carpel 7 mm long, 3 mm broad, glabrous, clothed above with numerous erect processes with glandular apices and pubescent sides, the largest towards the apex. Seed 4 mm long overall, 1.8 mm broad, black, shining; aril somewhat canted over inwards.