glabrous; stem herbaceous, erect, or decumbent at base, terete; leaves ovate, obtuse at base, sessile, subamplexicaul, pellucid-dotted, with a revolute margin; pa-nicle terminal, dichotomous; sepals lanceolate, very acute, glandularly toothed; styles 3, erecto-patent nearly as long as the (half ripe) capsule. An under-shrub, 6–12 inches high; the stem and the erect opposite, filiform, virgate branches ferruginous. Leaves 1/2 inch long, 4 lines wide, often smaller on the branchlets, with a wide base, perfectly sessile, paler on the lower surface, penni-nerved. Panicle cymose. Sepals 2 lines long. Petals oblong, yellow, striolate, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens numerous, rather shorter than the petals; the anthers as well as the sepals and petals dotted with black.
