leaves obovate, oval or oblong, aristate, thinly membranous, withering, but long persistent; stipules capillary, fugacious. Aspect of a Galium. Root thick, perpendicular, 3–6 inches long. Stems many, 1–3 feet long, filiform, weak, spreading or scandent, dichotomous or somewhat whorled, very smooth; the branchlets capillary. Lower internodes 2–4 inches long, upper shorter. Leaves 3–8 in a whorl, stellately patent, at length reflexed, bright green with a pale awn, 4–6 lines long, 1–3 lines wide, the uppermost narrower and shorter. Stipules setaceous, 1/2 line long. Flowers axillary, 3–7 together; pedicels as long as the leaves or longer. Calyx globose, 3/4–1 line long, with obtuse sepals. Ovary ovoid, sub-compressed; style oblique.
