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suffruticose, stems ascending; lower leaves crowded, linear wedge-shaped; cauline remotely whorled, narrow-linear; stipulary sheaths short; peduncles, pedicels and calyces quite smooth; stamens 20–30; most of them united at base into 3–5 parcels, a few free; seeds lenticular. Habit of Spergula or of Pharnaceum lineare. A glabrous, glaucous suffrutex, about a foot high. Root whitish. Leaves at the base of stem fleshy, 6–8 lines long, 1/2–1 line wide. Stems simple or forked, branches filiform, rigid. Leaves 5–10 in a whorl, at the tumid nodes, unequal, 4–8 lines long. Peduncles 1–2 1/2 inches long, sub-umbellate; pedicels 6–12 lines long, very slender. Sepals oval-elliptic, 2–3 lines wide. Capsule as long as calyx. Seeds shining, black. Easily known from the preceding by its long stems, remotely whorled (not crowded) leaves, and absence of tubercles.