A low herb of about 6 in., with shrubby habit, giving off numerous ascending, shortly hirsute branches from the thick root-stock. Leaves somewhat rigid, oblong-elliptical, mucronulate, glabrous or ciliolate, finely reticulate-venulose, sessile or subsessile, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. wide. Flowers nodding, in short, extra-axillary, few-flowered racemes of 1/2 in. or less. Bracts subulate, persistent, shorter than the pedicels. Wing-sepals green, obliquely obovate-oblong, narrowed below, slightly mucronulate. Capsule rotundate-obcordate, emarginate, narrowly-winged, ciliolate, broader, but shorter, than the wings.
