Thesium phyllostachyum Sond.

A small shrublet, many-stemmed, erect; branches leafy, slender, glabrous; leaves linear; recurved in the upper part, acutely mucronate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long, flat on the upper surface, rounded below, glabrous; flowers in lax spikes, with a leafy shoot above which turns black when dry; bracts linear, acute, shorter or longer than the flowers, concave on the upper side, slightly keeled below; bracteoles about two-thirds as long as to nearly as long as the bracts, but otherwise very similar; perianth 1-1 1/2 lin. long, with conspicuous large external glands; segments linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 1/2-1 lin. long, densely bearded in the upper portion; anthers about 1/6 lin. long, included in the perianth-tube; style 1/8 lin. long or almost absent; fruits ovoid, 2 1/4 lin. long, conspicuously 10-ribbed, slightly reticulate between the ribs.