stem short or none, fleshy, densely leafy; leaves radical, oblong-obovate, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, cultrate, subacute or obtuse, pubescenti-canescent, ciliolate; peduncle scapelike, pubescent, panicled or thyrsoid, with a few leaf-scales; cymules densely capitate, pubescent; calyx-lobes pubescent, ciliate, oblong or linear, very blunt, convex; petals subconnate, panduriform, with an ovate or globose, dorsal gland below the apex; stigma subsessile, capitate; squamæ oblong. Known from C. obvallata by its pubescence. Narrow and broad leaved varieties grow together, and I cannot, in the dry state at least, find limits between them.