Heliophila cornuta Sond.

Erect, virgate or straggling shrubs up to 1.5 m high; stems glabrous or the lower young branches minutely puberulous, glaucous. Leaves 1.5-12 cm long, 0.5-3 mm broad, filiform to linear-oblanceolate, fleshy, terete, glaucous, glabrous or the lower leaves minutely puberulous. Racemes lax. Pedicels glabrous or puberulous; in flower 0.5-1.3 cm long, slender, erect; in fruit 0.7-1.5 cm long, recurved or wide-spreading. Sepals 4.5-8.5 mm long, 1-2.8 mm broad, narrowly oblong, glabrous or puberulous, subper-sistent; outer 2 cucullate, the tip thickened or with a hollow 0.8-1.8 mm long horn arising shortly below the tip; inner 2 saccate, occasionally with a short horn. Petals 6.5-10.5 mm long, 2.3-6 mm broad, elliptic-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, subacute or rounded, each with a large appendage. Filaments 4-6 mm and 4.5-6.5 mm long, the 2 short ones each with an appendage. Anthers 1.5-2.9 mm long. Ovary linear with a slender style; ovules 14-38. Fruits 3-10 cm long, 1.5-2.7 mm broad, linear, moniliform; valves 13-nerved; style 3-6 mm long, stoutly subulate. Seeds 2.3-3 x 1-2 mm, narrowly winged.