stem shrubby, slender, spreading, glabrous; leaves connato-perfoliate, roundish or ovate, subacute, thick, glabrous, punctate above, glaucous, smooth-edged; cymes terminal, subsessile, dense, oblong or globose, with subulate bracts; calyx-lobes very short, ovate, glabrous; petals connate at base, oblong, obtuse, mucronulate; styles shortly subulate. Stem 1–2 feet high, woody, dichotomous, the branches short. Leaf pairs close; leaves 3/4–1 inch long, 1/2– 3/4 inch wide, very fleshy. Infl. dense. Flowers small. Petals reflexed or revolute, dorsally mucronulate, sub-panduriform.
