Brunia neglecta Schltr.

About 60 cm high, with puberulous branchlets. Leaves 3-5 mm long, sessile, imbricate, oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, incurved, convex on the dorsal surface, bisulcate on the ventral surface, glabrous except for ciliation. Flower-heads about 1.5 cm wide, globose, involucred by densely villous modified leaves at the base. Bract linear-spathulate, densely villous on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube narrowly obconic, densely villous: calyx-lobes spaced at the base, acicular, densely villous on the dorsal surface. Petals about 4 mm long, oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, glabrous, cream-coloured, spreading over the tips of the calyx-lobes, with 2 decurrent wing-like keels at the middle. Stamens much exserted: filaments slightly unequal in length (2 adaxial shorter than the others); anthers 1 mm long, oblong: thecae free almost § of their length. Ovary almost entirely inferior, villous at the apex, with 2 imperfectly formed biovulate chambers: placentas with the inner edges united in the lower half, free in the upper: ovules collateral, pendulous. Fruit unknown.