the erect stem and branches glabrous, the twigs downy and leafy; leaves spreading, ovate-oblong or ovate, sub-obtuse, pointless, nearly nerveless, concave above, glabrous, beneath flat, punctate and downy; flowers terminal, sub-sessile, solitary or in pairs; bracts keeled, cuspidate; calyx glabrous, its lobes ovate, sub-acuminate, glabrous at the edge, glandular at apex, purplish; petals glabrous, twice as long as the calyx, the sterile filaments longer than the fertile. Branches sub-dichotomous, the twigs crowded. Leaves alternate 2–3 lines long, 1 1/2 wide, obsoletely nerved, and scarcely paler beneath, many-dotted, with a slightly thicker margin. Calyx 2 1/2 lines long, surrounded by the uppermost bract-like leaves. Petals oval-orbicular, white above, reddish beneath. Sterile fil. hairy.
