Stilbe rupestris Compton

A small shrublet, branched from the base, the stems seldom more than 10 cm long, slender, erect or flexuous, softly pubescent. Leaves erect and silky-pubescent when young, glabrescent, spreading or deflexed when older, densely arranged in whorls of 2-4, each jointed at the base on a shortly decurrent pulvinus, linear, obtuse or sub-apiculate, margins closely reflexed against the midrib below, 5-9 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide. Flowers numerous, sessile in a compact terminal cluster c. 1 cm diam. Bract 5-6 mm long, boat-shaped, green, acute, hairy at the base outside, the margins reflexed as in the leaves. Bracteoles 2, similar to the bract, c. 3 mm long. Calyx-deeply 5-cleft, c. 3 mm long, one segment slightly shorter and narrower than the others, softly hairy, acuminate. Corolla glabrous except for a patch of hairs at the base of each lobe inside, tube straight, c. 4 mm long, lobes flat, white, lanceolate, spreading, sub-acute, c. 5 mm long. Stamens 4, inserted at the throat of the corolla, filaments c. 4 mm long, anthers exposed. Ovary shortly stipitate, 2-ovulate. Style slender, c. 7 mm long, stigma minute, exserted.