Gnidia coriacea Meisn.

A much-branched shrub, glabrous in all its parts; branches short, divergent, slender, terete, smooth, leaf-scars inconspicuous; leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-oblong to nearly lanceolate, acute, submucronate, up to 9 lin. long and 2.5 lin. wide, obtuse at the base, 1-nerved on the upper side, 3-5-nerved beneath, dark brown when dry; involucral leaves slightly larger; flowers 2-4 in terminal heads shorter than the involucre; calyx glabrous; tube 4 lin. long, slightly widening upwards, smooth; lobes ovate-oblong, 1.5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, acute; petals 4, subhyaline, elliptic, half as long as the lobes; upper anthers exserted; ovary ovoid, compressed, with a terminal tuft of hairs; style excentric, as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate.