stem erect, simple, densely imbricated with leaves below, laxly leafy above, glabrous; leaves connate, the lower ones imbricating, broadly orbicular, fleshy, very obtuse, hispidulous, with inflexed, ciliate margins, the upper depauperated, roundish-ovate, concave; cymes corymbose, densely trichotomous, bracteate; calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, ciliate; petals connate below, tapering above into long, lanceolate channelled points; stigma thick, sessile; squamæ flabelliform, stipitate. Very similar to C. columnaris, and perhaps only a smaller, but taller and more caulescent variety, with looser inflorescence. Stem 3–4 inches high, about 1/3 imbricated with leaves, 2/3 with subdistant nodes.
