Perennial, or perhaps biennial? Stems usually 2 or more to a root, erect, 6–10 in. high, often clothed with a number of short erect or ascending very leafy branches, glabrous. Leaves alternate, rather crowded, at first ascending, finally reflexed, sessile, 1/3–1 1/4 in. long, 1 1/4–3 lin. broad, oblanceolate or somewhat spathulate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, apiculate, tapering from above the middle to the base, very minutely denticulate at the apical part, glabrous on both sides. Stipules none. Umbel terminal, 2 1/4–3 in. in diam., of 5 once or twice forked rays 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. long or occasionally broken up into a corymbose cyme of forked branches, glabrous. Bracts 3–5 lin. long and broad, orbicular-ovate, obtuse or rounded, apiculate, broadly rounded at the sessile base, entire or subdenticulate, with very narrow cartilaginous margins, those at the base of the umbel 6–8 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, minutely denticulate, deflexed, all glabrous on both sides. Involucre sessile, when mature 1 1/3–1 3/4 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 subquadrate toothed or subentire more or less ciliate lobes; glands 1/2–1 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, with a straight dorsal margin and a minute tooth (scarcely a horn) at each end of it. Capsule about 1 1/2 lin. long, somewhat ovoid, obtusely 3-angled, glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel; styles 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, nearly free or shortly united at the base, bifid at the apex. Seeds about 1 lin. long, oblong, 4-angled, subtruncate at each end, obscurely rugulose, carunculate.