stem herbaceous, simple or forked, with distant nodes; leaves opposite or subfasciculate, on very long petioles, reniform, at base either cordate or cuneate, repando-crenate or lobulate, or subentire, thinnish, membranous when dry, glabrous; flowers patently cymose, on slender pedicels, the lower ones sometimes crowded in the axils; calyx lobes short, blunt, oblong, glabrous; petals free, ovato-lanceolate, acute. A weak, soft, succulent herb, with something the habit of Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, variable in size, 3–6 inches long or more. Petioles 1–3 inches long, slender. Leaves 1/2–1 inch wide, shorter than their width, occasionally smaller or larger: in the smaller forms subentire; in the larger with a few wide crenatures or very shallow lobules. Flowers 2 lines long, starlike, in a more or less developed cyme.
