Trachyandra adamsonii (Compton) Oberm.

Shrubs with a vertical, woody stem, up to 180 cm high, branched near the apex. Roots about 5 mm in diam. lanate. Stems ca. 2 cm in diam. covered with hard leaf-bases which may eventually disappear. Leaves in tufts near the apex, somewhat fleshy glaucous, glabrous, 16-30 cm long, 15-35 mm wide, with about 25 nerves, margin minutely denticulate. Inflorescence axillary, simple or with 1-2 small basal branches,30-50 cm long, bracts widely ovate, long acuminate, 10 mm long, 3 mm wide, membranous, margin minutely denticulate; pedicels erect, stout, up to 10 mm long in fruiting stage. Flower with perianth white or faintly flushed with pink, maculate and probably recurved; segments up to 14 mm long; filaments scabrid; ovary with ca. 9 ovules per loculus, style terete, stigma minute. Capsule erect, ovate, 12 mm long, 5 mm broad, apex obtuse. Seeds 3 mm long, tuberculate.