root (rhizoma?) tuberous or fusiform-strumose; stems herbaceous, prostrate, as well as the pedicels and flowers papulose-hirsute; leaves 1/2–1 1/2 inch long, 2–6 lines wide, rhomboid-ovate, elliptic or oblong, attenuated in the petiole, crystalline-papulose; flowers axillary on very long pedicels, the lower solitary, terminal ones 3–9 corymbose or subumbellate; lobes of calyx broad ovate or oblong, 1 1/2–3 1/2 lines long; stamens very numerous; fruit pendulous oblong, drupaceous, fleshy, 4-winged, 3–4 often by abortion 1–2 seeded. Stems very lax, simple or more or less branched, 1/2–1 foot. Pedicels filiform, in flower 1/2–2 inches long, 1/3 line thick. It differs from the two following especially by twice or thrice larger flowers, with longer and thicker pedicels, of which the lower are solitary, the uppermost umbellate, and by papulose-hirsute, not minutely crystalline-pruinous or pubescent branches and pedicels.
