Faramea scalaris Standl.

margin, prominulous beneath, the outer submarginal vein close to the margin, less prominulous and conspicuous than the inner submarginal vein, with 1-3 smaller veins paralleling the adjacent lateral veins, these soon branching, stiffly chartaceous, concolorous, the margin revolute; stipules persistent, free, rectan-gular or deltoid, to 0.5 cm long with a short median awn arising from a median keel, stiffly chartaceous, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, the peduncle 3-4 cm long, ca. 0.15 cm wide, flowers ca. 15, aggregated into a head subtended by 2 ovate rotund bracts, to 1.5 cm long, the terminal awn about as long as the body. Flowers subsessile; hypanthium and calycine cup ca. 2 mm long, the teeth tri-angular, 0.2-0.4 mm long; corolla bluish white, the tube narrowly cylindrical, 1-1.2 cm long, ca. 0.1 cm wide, the lobes 4, 0.3-0.5 mm long. Fruit not known.