Stem slender, decumbent, rooting, acutely 4-gonous, very sparingly ciliate, mottled with purple-brown; branches slender, flexuous, ascending; nodes bristly. Leaves 2–3 in. by 3/4–1 1/2 in., membranous, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 5-nerved, hirsute on both surfaces with rather spreading hairs; petioles 1/4– 1/2 in., flat, ciliate with copious rigid bristles 1/4 in. long. Flowers solitary or 2–3, jointed on a very short peduncle; bracts as long as the calyx, very broad, membranous, crinite, deciduous. Calyx-tube 1/4 in., broadly ovoid, glabrous, smooth; lobes as long as the tube, subulate-lanceolate, long acuminate, ciliate and bristle-pointed, persistent; accessory lobes 8–10, longer than the lobes, linear-subulate with very long spreading cilia. Petals not seen. Anthers of long stamens 1/4 in., rather exceeding the prolonged connective; appendage clavate, entire; connectives of small anthers short, not spurred, appendage small. Capsule subglobose, crown bristly, 5-valved.
