leaves crowded toward the end of the branches, scattered, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, flat, fleshy, glabrous; peduncles elongate, panicled, the branches of the panicle alternate, sub-distant, patent, scorpioid, glabrous; flowers shortly pedicellate, subsecund, nodding; calyx and corolla minutely puberulous; tube of the corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, rather longer than the lanceolate limbs of the petals. Stem very thick and fleshy, 1–2 feet high, little branched; branches short and thick, tubercled with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves 2–3 inches long, 1–1 1/2 wide, tapering into a cuneate base, deciduous. Peduncles 1–2 feet high, more than half occupied by the wide panicle, whose branches are an inch apart at their insertion, and though 6–8 inches long, seldom more than once forked. Flowers dull reddish, with a greenish 5-angled tube, 9–12 lines long.
