stem succulent, suffruticose, simple, pulverulent; leaves connate at base, thick, glaucous, pulverulent, oblong, obliquely falcate, subobtuse, the upper-ones degenerating to bracts; cyme corymbiform, trichotomous, much branched; calyx-lobes short, hispido-canescent, ovate or oblong, blunt; petals connate at base, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, not much longer than the stamens; styles subulate; squamæ minute. A robust, succulent, suffrutex, densely leafy, the leaves diminishing in size upwards. Lower leaves 3–4 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch wide, strongly reflexed. The surface of leaves and stem is finely granulated or closely and minutely papillate, giving a frosted appearance; the branches of panicle and apex of the stem are finely hispido-pubescent. Flowers bright crimson, rarely white.
