plant dwarf, succulent, spineless, branching from the base; branches ascending or somewhat spreading, 1–6 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering upwards, tessellately tuberculate with hexagonal flattish tubercles 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., having a slightly prominent whitish leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green; leaves sessile, soon deciduous, 2–3 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, with a reddish minutely toothed margin; peduncles 3–4 at the ends of the branches, about 2 lin. long, bearing a pair of ovate or elliptic bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous; involucre about 1/2– 2/3 in. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong toothed and ciliate inflexed purplish lobes; glands subcontiguous, about 2 1/2 lin. in diam. across the tips, very concave at the basal part, divided into 3–4 spreading finger-like corrugated white processes 1–1 1/2 lin. long; ovary pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with styles 1/4 in. long, united for two-thirds of their length, with entire spreading tips. null