stems very slender and probably trailing, finely grooved, glabrous; branches sparingly leafy, very slender; leaves linear, 1/2–1 in. long, very acute and cartilaginous at the apex, nearly flat, glabrous; flowers subsolitary, subtended by a bract and two bracteoles; bract adnate to the peduncle right up to the base of flower, equalling or up to twice the length of the flower, linear, subterete, acute, up to 1/2 in. long, glabrous; bracteoles as long as or longer than the flower, similar to the bract; flower nearly 2 lin. long, slender; perianth 1 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; segments linear-lanceolate, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, margin incurved; anthers exserted, 1/8 lin. long; style 1 lin. long, reaching to the top of the anthers; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, about 2 lin. long including the persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, prominently reticulate between the ribs. null
