annual; leaves simple, fleshy, cylindrical. A succulent annual, fragile when dry. Root perpendicular, as thick as a pigeon's quill. Stems as thick, many from the same root, decumbent at base, then erect, terete, pale, with alternate, divaricating branches, and alternate, rarely opposite, short, slender branchlets. Internodes in the stem 1/2–1 inch long, shorter in the branches. Leaves very widely spreading, sometimes 1 1/2–2 lines, sometimes 4–5 lines long, a line wide, narrowed at base, sub-sessile, very fleshy. Stipules hyaline, small, triangular. Flowers minute, 5-cleft. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1/2–1 line long. Petals yellowish, clawed, obovate, twice as long as the obtuse sepals. Stamens as long as the petals. Scales bipartite to the base, hyaline, the segments oblong, obtuse, thrice as short as the filaments. Capsule mostly pendulous, 1 line long and wide, emarginate at the apex, obcordate, sharply 5-angled; style very slender, half as long as the capsule or longer.
