suffruticose, diffuse, much branched, pruinose-papulose; flowering branches undivided; leaves carnose, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acutish, attenuated in a distinct petiole, margins revolute; flowers axillary, solitary or geminate, disposed in a lax, nearly leafless raceme; pedicels 1 inch or shorter; lobes of calyx linear, bluntish, 2–2 1/2 lines long; stamens very numerous; fruit 8–10 lines long, suborbicular, with four large wings, not costate, 3–4 locular. Decumbent subshrub; annual branches as large as a raven's quill. Leaves 1 inch or shorter, 2 1/2–1 line wide, scattered, with a few fascicles in the axils. From T. fruticosa it is distinguished by the distinctly petiolate leaves and linear not broadly ovate calyx segments.
