Bonamia velutina Verdc.

Perennial herb or suffrutex, erect, up to 1 m high, tomentose. Stems woody, branched, velvety with appressed sericeous hairs. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, 10-65 x 4-27 mm, mucronate at apex, rounded or subtruncate at base, greyish velvety pubescent above, densely coated with golden brown hairs beneath; petiole up to 7 mm long. Flowers in 1-3-flowered cymes; peduncles up to 5 mm long; pedicel up to 2 mm long; bracts leafy or minute. Sepals subequal, ovate-lanceolate, obo-vate or spathulate, subcoriaceous at base, densely golden velvety outside and middle inside, glabrous at base inside, pilose at apex. Corolla white, funnel-shaped, slightly 5-lobed, up to 15 mm long, silky pilose on midpetaline areas. Ovary ovoid, golden pilose; style bifid below middle; stigmas large, lobulate-peltate. Capsule ellipsoid, subacute, appressed pilose at apex and base. Seeds 3-4 mm long, ellipsoid, brown-purple, glabrous, minutely punctate.