perennial, glabrous; stem decumbent, hexagonal; branches erect, dichotomous; leaves lanceolate, acute at the base, scabrous, hairy above; stipules joining the petioles, truncate, ciliate; peduncles solitary, axillary and terminal, 1-flowered, often trifid, pedicels 4–5 times, tube of the corolla 3 times longer than the calyx, expanded at the throat; lobes acute; fruit globose, smooth. Branches 1/2–1 foot or longer. Leaves about 1 inch long, 3–4 lines broad, adpressed-hairy, sometimes glabrous above, ciliated at the base; upper ones smaller, bract like. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 1/2–1 inch long, the pedicels spreading, about twice shorter. Corolla 2 lines long, glabrous in the throat, the 4 lobes acute, anthers subexserted. Capsule crowned with the short calyx-teeth.
