An erect herb, puberulous, dusky when dry, simple, about 4 in. high, apparently annual and parasitical; stem angular, clothed more or less closely with leaves especially about the base; leaves scale-like, alternate or subopposite, oval, obtuse, not very much narrowed towards the base, sessile or subsessile, entire, 1/10-3/10 in. long, 1/20-1/8 in. broad; flowers spicate or the lower axillary, rather numerous, about 1/2 in. long, subsessile; spikes dense above, somewhat interrupted below, 3/4-1 3/4 in. long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 1/5 in. long; calyx 1/4 in. long, loosely campanulate, puberulous, shortly 5-cleft; lobes deltoid, about 1/12 in. long; corolla veined, nearly glabrous; tube about equalling the calyx; stamens 4, subequal; filaments filiform, 1/8 in. long, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers glabrous, oval, 1/24 in. long; cells obtuse; ovary glabrous, rounded, about 1/12 in. in diam.; style glabrous, with the stigma 1/4 in. long; stigma linear-clavate.
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