Thamnea gracilis Oliv.

About 30 cm high, with very slender glabrous branchlets. Leaves about 1-5 mm long, closely appressed, with almost half attached to the stem, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, slightly concave above, acutely convex beneath, glabrous. Flowers sessile, subtended by ovate or elliptic thin involucral leaves. Calyx-lobes 2.25 mm long, oblong, subacute, glabrous, erect, imbricate at base. Petals about 3.75 mm long, consisting, in equal lengths, of a linear reddish claw widening into an elliptic-obovate subacute white lamina. Anthers 1 mm long, reaching to the middle of the lamina. Ovary bilocular, with 2 ovules in each chamber, capped with a disc with an elevated margin: stylar column 2 mm long, slender: stigmas united in a head. Fruit 1-5 mm long, ellipsoid.