suffruticose, erect, or from the base squarrose and diffuse; branches closely leafy, leaves more or less densely set, setaceo-filiform, mucronate, or awned; stipules fimbriato-lacerate, the segments capillary, elongate, not interwoven in glomerules; peduncles scape-like, cymose, many-flowered; seeds globose-lenticular, acutely margined, very smooth. 1/2–1 1/2 feet high; branches 1–2 inches, or 3–6 inches long, slender, comose at the end. Leaves fleshy, glabrous, furrowed below, rigid, patent or recurved, in some specimens 2–4 lines, in others 6–12 lines long. Stipules silvery, the sub-simple fimbrils never curled. Peduncles solitary or several from the terminal tuft of leaves, 1–16 inches long. Cyme 2–3-chotomous, the branches often racemose, spreading; the pedicels at base bracteated by a tuft of stipules or leaves. Sepals with wide margins. Anthers orange. Capsule ovoid-triangular, as long as the calyx or longer. Only to be known from the preceding by its stipules.
