Compilation
Philippia elgonensis

Much-branched shrub or small tree 0.9– 3.5 m high; branchlets minutely puberulous. Leaves narrowly ovate, 1.5– 3 mm long, 0.4– 0.8 mm wide, glabrous or in young leaves with some marginal glands, shiny beneath with resinous exudate; petiole 0.5– 0.8 mm long. Flowers with pedicel 3– 4 mm long, glabrous; bract 1.6– 2.2 mm long, halfway up or fairly close to calyx; calyx 0.8– 1.2 mm long, half-connate, 4-lobed with equal lobes, glabrous but sometimes slightly dissected. Corolla whitish, sometimes slightly narrowed towards the mouth, 1.5– 2.3 mm, the lobes ± 0.5 mm long. Stamens with anthers 0.9– 1 mm long. Style 1.5– 2 mm long, stigma peltate, 0.7– 1 mm across. Fig. 3.