Gnidia thesioides Meisn.

Branches slender, at first pilose, terete, straight, corymbosely branched above, leaf-scars small, but rather prominent; leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, linear or nearly lanceolate, rather obtuse, flat, 1-nerved, glabrous, 3-9 lin. long, 0.3-2 lin. wide; flowers solitary (rarely geminate) in the axils of the upper leaves; calyx densely hairy outside; tube about 3 lin. long, inflated below, narrowly funnel-shaped above, f lin. in diam. at the top; lobes rounded, 0.5 lin. long, and wide; petals 8, clavate, half as long as the lobes; anthers about as large as the petals, obtuse; ovary compressed, hairy at the apex; style 1.5 lin. long; stigma subcapitate; fruit surrounded by the ovoid pubescent base of the calyx.