stem herbaceous, annual, forked, diffuse, slender, pubescent; leaves subconnate, elliptical or obovate, narrowed at base, obtuse, thinly pubescent, flat, thin, entire; flowers on filiform pedicels, solitary in the forks of the stem or axils, the uppermost subumbellate; calyx-lobes equalling the stellate corolla, lanceolate-oblong, subacute, pubescent; petals scarcely connate at base, ovate, acute; styles shortly subulate; squamæ linear. A small, weak growing herb, 2–4 inches high. Leaf-pairs 1/2–1 inch apart; leaves 1/2– 3/4, scarcely 1 inch long, 3–5 lines wide. Flowers scarcely 1 line long, on hair-like pedicels 6–8 lines long.
