Gosela

Perennial, heath-like shrublets; branches slender; many axillary brachyblasts present; hairs on stems, leaves, bracts and calyx with sculptured walls. Leaves alternate, linear, +/- fascicled. Flowers bracteate, sessile, in compact spikes with lower flowers longer than upper, resulting in corymb-like spike; elongate in fruit. Bracts free from calyx, ovate-lanceolate, villous, much shorter than corolla tube. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed, bilabiate, villous, shorter than bracts; tube shallowly campanulate; lobes at least equal to tube in length, 2 posterior ones incompletely divided. Corolla tubular, 5-lobed, leathery; tube long, cylindrical, widening slightly towards apex; limb much shorter; posterior lip 2-lobed, without orange patch, exterior in bud; anterior lip 3-lobed; lobes subequal, spreading, obovate-oblong. Stamens usually 4, rarely 2 (posterior), if 4, didynamous; posterior pair arising high in corolla tube, with filaments adnate to tube for most of their length, free part shorter than included anthers; anterior pair with longer filaments but smaller anthers, arising in mouth of tube, exserted; if 2 stamens either anterior filaments with sterile anthers or these stamens completely aborted; filaments linear; anthers synthecate, dorsifixed; staminodes 0(2). Nectary single, basal on posterior side of ovary. Ovary bilocular, ellipsoid to elongate; ovules 1 per locule; or sometimes ovary unilocular with anterior locule absent or ovule aborted; style slender, terete, exserted; stigma linear, flat. Fruit of 1 or 2 hard-walled cocci, enclosed in persistent calyx, convex on one side, curved, bluntly beaked. Seeds fusiform with fleshy testa.