stem suffruticose, short, branched, with short internodes, nearly glabrous; leaves connate, closely set, shortly cultrate, fleshy, keeled, acute or subacute, glabrous; cymes shortly pedunculate, few flowered, corymbose, with toothlike bracts; flowers pedicellate; calyx-lobes not half as long as corolla, oblong-deltoid, subacute, keeled, glabrous; petals oblong, nearly free; styles subulate; squamæ minute, emarginate. Stems 3–4 inches high, chiefly branched from the base, the branches leafy to an inch from the summit. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 inch long, 2–3 lines wide, the narrower ones subulate. Peduncles 1 inch long or less; cymes little divided, 7–12-flowered. Flowers white, 2 1/2 lines long. Drege's specimen lettered “ b. ” seems different.
