shrubby, glabrous; leaves opposite, the upper alternate, either linear, lanceolate, oblong or ovate, acute; corymbs dichotomous, lax or contracted; sepals ovate, acute or lanceolate, acuminate, glanduloso-ciliate, more or less longer than the capsule. A shrublet, 1–3 feet high. Primary stem mostly short, in γ. long, emitting many erect, simple or branched, virgate, striated or angular secondary stems. Leaves erecto-patent, rigidly membranous or coriaceous, green or glaucous, more numerous and mostly opposite in the lower, scattered in the upper portion of the branches; all one-nerved or in var. γ. sub-tri-nerved; the margin slightly inrolled, very entire. Stipulary glands 2, minute or thickened. Infl. cymose-corymbose, the lateral branches commonly racemose, most frequently lax, 2–3 inches long, sometimes 6 inches or more; in var. γ. contracted, 1–2 inches, the cymules short and leafy. Bracts leafy. Pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter. Sepals 3-nerved. Petals obovate, yellow, villous at base inside, twice or rarely thrice as long as the calyx. Styles equalling the petals, or shorter, connate for nearly half their length. Stigmas minute, capitellate. Capsule sub-globose, glabrous.
