Sebaea stricta Gilg

Erect perennial herbs, simple or with stiffly ascending branches up to 60 cm high. Leaves up to 1.2 cm long and equally broad, ovate-cordate or triangular ovate-cordate, subacute, reflexed, coriaceous or somewhat fleshy, pale green (Chinese yellow fide Kapp), the margin revolute; upper leaves smaller and often narrow triangular-ovate, acute. Inflorescence paniculate or corymbose, or the cymes reduced to 1 flower and in florescence racemose; bract s ovate-lanceolate to deltoid-subulate, spreading. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4-8 mm long, 1-1.75 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, often mucronate, the sides opaque, keeled or with a very n arrow wing. Corolla vivid yellow (fide Kapp); tube 4-7.25 mm long, narrowly cylindrical; lobes 4-9 m m long, 2-4.75 mm broad, narrowly elliptic to broadly obovate, clawed, rounded. Filaments 1.75-3 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sin uses; anthers 1.75-3.75 mm long, each with 2 very small sessile or shortly stipitate basal glands, sometimes absolutely min ute. Style and stigma 4-9 mm long, stigmatic swelling absent or very sma ll, well below the middle; stigma capitate or clavate, 2-lobed.