Corchorus psammophilus Codd

Perennial herb with several prostate, slender, simple or sparingly branched, villous stems 0.3-0.6 m long, radiating from a slender woody tap-root. Leaf-blade 30-45 x 15-20 mm, ovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, strigose on both surfaces, nerves prominent below, apex rounded, base rounded to truncate, margin minutely crenulate; petiole 3-6 mm long, pilose. Inflorescence subsessile to shortly pedunculate, 1-3-flowered, subopposite the leaves; pedicels 6-8 mm long, recurved, pilose; bracts 4-5 mm long, setaceous. Sepals 7-9 x 1.5 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, villous without. Petals yellow, 6-8 x 3-5 mm, oblanceolate to obovate, shortly clawed. Androgynophore 0.5 mm tall. Stamens numerous; filaments about 4 mm long. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, 3-locular, densely strigose; style 7 mm long; stigma fimbrillate. Capsule 18-25 x 2 mm, subcylindric, somewhat arcuate, strigose; seeds numerous, blackish, 1.75 x 1 mm, oblong-cylindric.