Gnidia humilis Meisn.

An undershrub up to 1 ft. high; branches loosely pilose, slender, slightly spreading; leaves opposite, sessile, herbaceous, oblong, acute at both ends, 3-6 lin. long, 1.5-2 lin. wide, pilose, hairs fugacious on the surface, more numerous and persistent longer on the margins, obscurely 1-nerved; flowers geminate and terminal or solitary in the uppermost axils; calyx pilose outside; tube 3 lin. long, oblong below, rather widely funnel-shaped above; lobes 1 lin. long, ovate; petals 4, membranous, ovate, half as large as the lobes; anthers much longer than broad; ovary ovoid, hairy at the top; style as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate.