Gnidia baurii C.H.Wright

A diffuse undershrub; branches slender, weak, pilose at first, leaf-scars small but prominent; leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, 6 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide, adpressed-silky on the undersurface, glabrous above; flowers geminate, at the ends of the branches; calyx silky outside; tube 4 lin. long, ovoid below, narrowly funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate, about 1 lin. long and 2/3 lin. wide, acute; petals 8, oblong, obtuse, 1/2 lin. long, rather thick; anthers shortly oblong, very small, the upper exserted on short slender filaments; ovary oblong, hairy at the top; style slender, shorter than the calyx-tube; stigma small.