Thamnea hirtella Oliv.

Probably 30-40 cm high, occasionally partly decumbent, with pilose branchlets. Leaves 2-2.5 mm long, widely appressed at the base, loosely imbricate, somewhat erect-spreading, lanceolate or, near the flowers, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, flat or slightly concave above, bluntly keeled beneath, pilose-ciliate. Flowers stipitate, subtended by thin lanceolate ciliate involucral leaves about 4 mm long. Calyx-tube sulcate, glabrous: calyx-segments 4 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, rounded-convex on the dorsal surface, pilose-ciliate on the upper half. Petals 7 mm long, consisting, in equal lengths, of a linear reddish claw widening into an obovate subacute white lamina. Anthers 1-5 mm long, obtuse, reaching to the upper half of the lamina. Ovary surmounted by a disc with an elevated margin, imperfectly bilocular, 8-ovulate: stigmas fused in a small head. Fruit unknown.