Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict.Inst. 1:116 (1855).

Derivation: After Dr Godfrey Howitt, a Melbourne physician and amateur botanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial woody shrubs covered with a stellate tomentum; leaves alternate, entire or toothed.

Flowers bisexual, in the axils of leaves, on slender peduncles, conspicuous; epicalyx 0; sepals fused to form a spreading-campanulate cup divided approximately half-way into 5 lobes; petals 5, purple or white; staminal tube short, adnate to the corolla; anthers probably 30-60; carpels 3 or 4, in a single whorl; stigmas capitate, terminating the unbranched style.

fruit a loculicidal capsule, depressed-globular, each cell with 2 ascending glabrous seeds.

Distribution:  1 species, endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available