Thesium elatius Sond.

A fleshy shrub several feet high; branches flexuous, terete, glabrous; leaves linear, boat-shaped, keeled, acute or subacute, 3-7 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, fleshy, glabrous, at length spreading or recurved; flowers white, arranged in rather short or subcapitate spikes; bracts shorter than the flowers, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, 2-3 lin. long, at first adjacent to the flower, at length spreading or recurved, thick and fleshy, sharply keeled, glabrous; bracteoles 2, soon falling off, linear, acute, a little shorter than the bracts; flowers large and solitary within the bracts, with a short stout pedicel; perianth 1 3/4-2 lin. long, with conspicuous external glands; segments lanceolate, acute, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, with a dense woolly apical beard of long hairs and a dense ring of short stiff brown hairs in the throat of the tube; anthers in the tube mainly exserted or partially included, about 3/8 lin. long; style nearly 1/2 lin. long, the stigma below the base of the anthers; fruits contracted at the base, subglobose, nearly 3 lin. long including the persistent perianth, not very conspicuously 10-ribbed, verrucose-reticulate between the rib.