A succulent shrub 3–4 ft. high, leafless and spineless, dichotomously or trichotomously much-branched from the base, fleshy, glaucous, probably diœcious; stems or branches 1/8– 1/4 in. thick in the specimens seen, terete, glabrous; branchlets opposite, articulated to the branches, 1–1 1/4 lin. thick (dried), probably 2 lin. or more thick when alive, with the barren ones 4–6 in. long, diverging, straight, and the flowering abbreviated into joints 1/8– 1/2 in. long and more or less congested or clustered. Leaves opposite, rudimentary, reduced to very minute scales. Involucres solitary or 3 together, terminal, with a pair of scale-like bracts at their base, closely sessile, 1 1/3 lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped, glabrous outside, hairy within in front of the glands, with 5 glands and 5 oblong slightly ciliate or toothed lobes; glands distant, 1/2 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire. Ovary and capsule not seen.
