Sebaea laxa N.E.Br.

Slender, much-branched, apparently annual herbs 12-25 cm high, with thin wiry stems. Leaves 3-8 mm long, 2-6 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, very thin, the margins often recurved, scattered along the stems. Inflorescence very lax, few-flowered with long pedicels; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, spreading or recurved. Calyx of 4 segments, each 3-4 mm long, 1 mm broad, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the sides hyaline, with a keel-wing 0.25-0.5 mm broad, broadest below the middle. Corolla yellow, tube 3.5-4.75 mm long; lobes 5-5.75 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, long-acute or rounded, clawed. Filaments 2-2.5 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses. Anthers 1-1.25 mm long, their tips recurved, each with a yellow-brown apical gland. Style and stigma 3.5 mm long with a small stigmatic swelling above the middle; stigma small, clavate, 2-lobed.