quite glabrous, di-tri-chotomous; branches terete, twigs compressed; leaves sub-remote, opposite, oblongo-lanceolate, or lanceolate, very acute, flat, one-nerved, obsoletely glanduloso-denticulate; flowers in the forks of the upper branches, pedunculate, the peduncle once or twice three-forked, bracteate at the divisions; pedicels compressed, longer than the calyx, bibracteolate at base; calyx-lobes oblong, acute, keeled; claws of the petals thinly bearded, limb obtuse; sterile filaments very short. A foot or more high, with erecto-patent branches, and slender yellowish twigs. Leaves equalling the internodes, or shorter or longer, patent, green, glaucous and with the nerve prominent beneath, 6–7 lines long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide. Infl. cymoid. Bracts like the leaves, but smaller; pedicels 2–3 lines long. Cal.-lobes 1–1 1/4 line long, sub-unequal. Disc erect, obsoletely sinuate. Petals 1 1/2 lines long, the claw equalling the calyx, the limb obtuse. Fertile filaments 1/2 line long; sterile gland-like. Capsule 6 lines long, with horns as long as the carpels.
