Hippobroma G.Don

Coarse perennial herbs; roots tuberous, fleshy. Leaves simple, exstipulate, alternate, short-petiolate, pinnately veined and both repand-dentate and dentic-ulate. Flowers solitary in the axils of undifferentiated leaves; pedicels short, basally bibracteolate, more or less erect at anthesis; hypanthium obconic, strongly 10-ribbed; calyx tube extending above the ovary as a narrow free rim; calyx lobes erect, linear; corolla salverform, white, the tube entire, the lobes equal or nearly so, much shorter than the tube; filaments equalling or somewhat exceeding the corolla tube, connate distally but distinct from one another from just below the apex of the corolla tube to the base, adnate to the corolla tube, the anthers con-nate, all white-beared at the apex but otherwise glabrous, conspicuously unequal in length; stigma broadly and strongly bilobed. Capsules pendent at maturity, 4/5 inferior or more, biloculate, debiscing loculicidally and apically; seeds plump, cylindric with broadly rounded ends, minutely foveolate-reticulate.