rootstock or main body of the plant buried in the ground, not seen; stems or branches 6–8 in. (or perhaps more) high, 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. thick when dried, evidently much stouter when alive, erect, simple or with a whorl of 3–7 branches at or near the top, succulent, cylindric, covered with rhomboid tubercles 2 1/2–6 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad and 1/2–1 lin. prominent, tipped with a white leaf-scar, spineless, but often with (sometimes without) some persistent peduncles, glabrous; leaves erect, 2 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, linear, acute, fleshy, apparently channelled down the face and keeled on the back, glabrous; peduncles 4–11 lin. long, solitary in the axils of the tubercles, usually forming an umbel-like cluster at the tips of the branches, glabrous, bearing 4–6 bracts and 1 involucre; bracts 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong to elliptic-obovate, concave, entire, glabrous outside, thinly pubescent within, ciliate; involucre 4–4 1/2 lin. in diam., probably larger when alive, broadly cup-shaped, with 5 glands and 5 large transversely elliptic toothed lobes, thinly pubescent outside and in front of the glands and on the lobes within; glands 1 1/3–2 lin. in diam., broadly cuneate, palmatifidly divided to about half-way down into 4–6 abruptly reflexed linear segments, dilated and entire or slightly toothed at their apices; undivided part entirely glandular, most minutely rugulose, not pitted, apparently yellowish-green, with the inner margin turned up, forming a small lip; segments apparently white; ovary sessile, included, glabrous; styles 1 1/2 lin. long, united into a column nearly to the apex, with slightly spreading thickened subentire tips; capsule sessile, 3 lin. long and 4 1/2 lin. in diam., very obtusely and shallowly 3-lobed as seen from above, glabrous; seeds 1 3/4–2 lin. long, ovoid, usually slightly keeled on the back, minutely scabrid-tuberculate all over, blackish-brown. null
