stem herbaceous, glabrous, erect, simple, virgate, leafy; leaves vaginato-perfoliate, oblongo-lanceolate or lanceolate, the upper ones gradually smaller and more attenuate, all flat, carnoso-coriaceous, sparsely pilose or glabrous, cartilagineo-ciliate; cymes densely corymbose, much branched, subsessile; calyx-lobes half as long as corolla, subulato-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; petals suberect, oblong, concave, fleshy; styles very short and squamæ minute. Stem 1–3 feet high, quite simple or merely dichotomous near the summit, glabrous or sparsely setulose. Leaf-pairs 1–2 inches apart; lower leaves 4–6 inches long upper shorter, the uppermost 1–2 inches long. Cymes very large and flat-topped, much branched. Flowers 1–2 lines long, bright yellow.
