Stems radiating from the crown of the root, prostrate, pinnately branched, slender, glabrous all round. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 1/3 lin. broad, orbicular-cordate, slightly notched at the very obtuse apex, slightly unequal at the base, entire, subfleshy, glabrous. Stipules on each side of the stem united into a broadly ovate or ovate-subquadrate body, toothed at the rounded or subtruncate apex. Involucres solitary, axillary on very short axillary branchlets, minute (and including the short peduncle) 2/3 lin. long, 1/3 lin. in diam., with 4 glands and 5 minute deltoid acuminate lobes; glands 1/8– 1/6 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, apparently dark red, with a minute petal-like white appendage on their outer margin. Capsule 3/4 lin. in diam., somewhat acutely 3-angled, glabrous, exserted on a recurved pedicel about 1/4 lin. longer than the involucre; styles about 1/5 lin. long, free to the base, spreading, minutely bifid at the apex. Seeds 1/2 lin. long, obtusely 4-angled, smooth.
