A delicate undershrub with long slender flexuose branching prostrate stems, thinly clothed with short adpressed hairs. Leaves somewhat membranous, nearly sessile, distant, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, about 9 lin., rarely to 2 in. long, sparsely adpressed-hairy on both surfaces. Flowers few (3 or more) in a capitate cyme on short slender erecto-patent peduncles rarely up to 9 lin. long, with a pair of small lanceolate bracts subtending each head. Sepals subequal, elliptic-ovate, shortly acute, back and margin sparsely hairy, barely 2 lin. long. Corolla white, 3 lin. long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped; limb 5-partite; lobes spreading, blunt, the median areas hirsute. Stamens subequal, projecting at the mouth of the corolla; filaments narrowing gradually from the base, not dentate; ovary hairy at the top; style bifid to the base; stigmas peltate, bilobulate. Capsule globose, glabrous, 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Seeds ovoid, dark brown, glabrous.
