Heliophila callosa Dc.

Perennial woody shrubs up to 1 m high, glabrous. Stems glabrous, the older ones with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves 2-6 cm long, 3-6 mm broad, the upper leaves shorter and narrower, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, 3-nerved, leathery, wrinkled when dry, minutely stipulate. Racemes terminal, dense, many-flowered, elongating in fruit. Pedicels 0.7-2.5 cm long, erect, only slightly longer in fruit, subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 5.5-8 mm long, 2.3-3.5 mm broad, elliptic to narrowly ovate, thick, leathery when dry; outer 2 cucullate, shortly horntipped with membranous margins; inner 2 with broad membranous margins. Petals 1-1.3 cm long, 5-7.5 mm broad, obovate, rounded, shortly clawed. Filaments 4.8-6 mm and 5.5-6.9 mm long. Anthers 2.3-5 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong, markedly stipitate; style short; ovules 12-18. Fruits 6-8 cm long, 4.5-6.5 mm broad, linearoblong, straight-sided; valves flat, 1-nerved; stipe 0.3-1 cm long; style 3-6 mm long, stout. Seeds 6-7 x 3.5-5 mm, oblong or subcircular, flat, broadly winged, papillose.