Gnidia francisci Bolus

An undershrub about 9 in. high, sparingly branched from the base; branches tetragonal, simple or with a few branches, slender, at first pilose, soon becoming glabrous; leaves opposite, erect, longer than the internodes, subulate, acuminate, 4.5 lin. long, 1/2 lin. wide, channelled above, convex beneath, with a deciduous terminal tuft of hairs; heads terminal, about 5-flowered; bracts shorter and wider than the leaves, silky; calyx silky outside, cream-coloured (Bolus); tube 6 lin. long, ovoid in the lower third, narrowly funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate, acute, 1.5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 8, lanceolate, 1 lin. long, 0.3 lin. wide, rather fleshy; anthers oblong, 1/2 lin. long; ovary ovate, compressed, with a conspicuous terminal tuft of hairs; style filiform, 3 lin. long; stigma penicillate.