suffrutescent, decumbent, branches woody at the base, annual ones elongate, simple or with short branchlets at the base, rough from papulæ; leaves broad-ovate, cuneate, subsessile, or ovate, rhomboid-ovate or oblong, attenuated in a short, broad petiole, superior ones spathulate-oblong, flat; flowers axillary, 3–5, aggregated, on unequal pedicels, disposed in a very long, interrupted-leafy raceme; leafy bracts ovate or spathulate; fruit 6–9 lines long, suborbicular, 4–5-winged, papulose-leprose, wings often alternate with tubercles. Bi-triennial, 1–1 1/2 foot high, primary branches as thick as a goose's quill, with or without axillary fasciculate branchlets, leaves broadly-petiolate, rotundate.
