suffruticulose, glabrous; secondary stems numerous, ascending or erect, somewhat naked and paniculato-corymbose above; leaves mostly alternate, crowded, erect, subimbricate, narrow-linear, acute; stipulary glands none or rarely solitary or in pairs; sepals ovate, acute, pectinato-ciliate, about equalling the capsule. Resembling the smaller specimens of L. africanum; this differs in the smaller size, the stems being commonly 3–6 inches, rarely 1 foot long, and more slender; in the smaller leaves, 3–4, rarely 5 lines long, 1/2 line wide; and smaller flowers. Root thick. Leaves evidently one-nerved below. Corymb short, few-flowered, an inch or rarely two inches long, sometimes 2–4 flowered. Pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter. Sepals one line long, remarkably ciliate. Petals yellow, twice as long as the calyx, equalling the styles.
