Carpacoce scabra Sond.

Stems much branched, branches minutely downy at top; leaves opposite, linear, subtrigonal, acuminated, scabrous on the margins and keel; flowers axillary, sessile; fruit crowned by the subulate, calycine limb. Stem very short; branches slender, erect, 1 foot high. Leaves 1/2-1 inch long, narrow-linear, with a cartilaginous point, ciliolato-scabrous on the margins, aggregate at the top of the branches. Calyx-lobes acuminate, nearly 2 lines long. Lobes of corolla 3-4 times longer than the short tube. Fruit quite glabrous, cuneate, about 1 line long and broad, sub-compressed; the calyx-lobes spreading, longer than the fruit. Seeds obovate, rugose.