stem herbaceous, distantly forked, diffuse, 4-angled, pubescent; leaves sub-connate at base, the lower subpetiolate, oblongo or ovato-lanceolate, distant, acute, pubescent, flat, thinnish, margined and dotted within the margin; flowers on filiform pedicels, in terminal umbels or fascicles; calyx-lobes subulato-lanceolate, acute, keeled, glabrous, setose along the keel, longer than the concave, acute, oblong or ovate-oblong petals; styles shortly subulate. Stems 2 or more feet long, very weak and probably trailing, patently hispido-pubescent as well as the leaves. Leaf-pairs 2–3 inches apart; leaves 1–1 1/2 inches long, 5–6 lines wide. Flowers 2–3 lines long. Allied to C. centauroides.
