Gnidia sparsiflora Bartl. ex Meisn.

A shrub, 1 ft. or more high; branches few, suberect, branched at the apex; leaves alternate, subimbricate, adpressed, linear-lanceolate, acute, subhirsute when young, finally glabrous, 3 lin. long, attenuate at the base; flowers solitary in the axils of the congested upper leaves; calyx 6 lin. long, silky-tomentose; tube filiform; lobes a quarter as long as the tube, broadly ovate, subacute; petals 8, membranous; oblong, glabrous, one-third as long as the calyx-lobes.