Hermannia muirii Pillans

Shrublet, low, branched from base; branches subsparsely hispid with long, fairly soft hairs, 2 or more grouped on a bulbous base, old wood glabrescent but rough with minute hair-bases. Stipules foliaceous, more than half the length of subtending leaf, oblong, narrowly oblong or ovate-lanceolate, usually broad-based, 5-10 mm long, hispid especially on margins. Leaves sessile to subsessile, neatly imbricately arranged, more or less oblong, usually narrowing slightly towards base, 6-10 mm long, entire or occasionally few-lobed at apex, hispid as on stipules. Inflorescence of 1-2-flowered cymes in axils of crowded upper leaves, appearing to grow in clusters at apices of branches and branchlets; peduncles short, about 1-2 mm long; bracteoles 3, linear, about 4 mm long; pedicels about 4 mm long, hispid as in other parts. Calyx about 6 mm long, lobed to just below middle, laxly pubescent with long hairs grouped on a bulbous base, tube cyathiform, lobes deltoid-acute. Petals white becoming pale pink, 7-8 mm long, upper portion oblong-obovate, narrowing just below middle into a claw with infolded margins, glabrous. Stamens about 4 mm long; filaments oblong-cuneate, hyaline; anthers 2.5 mm long, overlapping hyaline filaments for 0.75 mm. Ovary stellate-tomentose, about 4 mm long, 5-lobed, lobes rounded at apex; stipe 1 mm long; styles 4 mm long. Capsule more or less enveloped by the calyx and petals, about 4 mm long, subrotund, 5-lobed, stellate-pubescent with short hairs between sutures and longer hairs on sutures.