stem suffruticose, ascending-erect, with spreading lateral branches that take root beneath, laxly leafy; leaves connate, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, narrow, cultrate, flattish, subacute or acute, glabrous, smooth-edged; peduncle elongate, slender, with distant leaf-scales, glabrescent, cymoso-corymbose at the summit, the cymules dense; calyx-lobes linear, blunt, pubescent, keeled; petals connate at base, panduriform, with an oblong, subapical dorsal gland; stigma nearly sessile; squamæ emarginate. Smaller, more branching and more diffuse than C. cultrata, with much smaller leaves and a different inflorescence. Leaves seldom more than an inch long, and 3–4 lines wide. Cyme trifid, flat-topped, few flowered and seldom more compound.
