A dwarf shrublet, apparently about 10-15 cm high, branching in a cruciate manner. Stem slightly compressed and 2-edged, about 4 mm thick in one direction and 3 mm thick in the other, with internodes 10-18 mm long, at first green, becoming brown and woody with age; branches spreading 4-7 cm long in the specimens seen. Leaves 10-18 mm long (measured from the base at the back), 5-9 mm broad and 8-10 mm thick, laterally compressed, ascending or ascending-spreading and united at the base for 7-9 mm of their total length, each leaf viewed from the side being somewhat halfmoon-shaped, subacute or obtuse and minutely apiculate at the apex, slightly convex or flattish on the upper surface, and viewed from above elongated triangular or ovate in outline, acute, acutely keeled all down the back, and with the keel continuing down the stem; surface smooth, microscopically puberulous, velvety to the touch, faintly bluish-green, dull purplish or reddish along the cartilaginous keel, not dotted. Flowers not seen, but according to a photograph representing a small plant of the natural size, the corolla is 28-30 mm in diameter, with about 30 petals free to the base, 12-13 mm long and 2 1/2-3 mm broad, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse. Stamens numerous, collected into a bundle 6 mm long, apparently of a dark colour at the tips.
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