herbaceous, and emitting runners; leaves radical, horizontally spreading, imbricating, rosulate, spathulate-obovate, or oblong, obtuse, carnoso-coriaceous, flat, glabrous, cartilagineo-ciliate; peduncle scapelike, leafless; cymes densely fascicled, in an interrupted thyrsus, fascicles opposite, shortly peduncled; flowers subsessile, bracteate; calyx-lobes half of corolla, oblong or ovato-lanceolate, ciliate; petals obovate-oblong, apiculate; styles very short. Crown throwing out lateral runners and offsets. Leaves spreading in a circle, the undermost 2 inches long, the overlying ones gradually smaller, all more or less obovate, obtuse or scarcely subacute, fringed with cartilaginous cilia. Peduncle 6–8 inches long, with 3–5 pairs of opposite fascicled cymules. Flowers creamy white, I-I 1 line long.
