Caulis herbacei, proftrati, teretes, rubentes: punctis obfoletis, papulofis, nitentibus, ut tota planta, obtecti. Folia oppofita, linearia, parumque lanceolata, fucculenta, fupra canaliculata, fubtus femicylindrica, papulis fubmuricata, obtufa. Pedunculi breves, papulofi, uniflori. Calyx foliolis inaequalibus, fubulato-cylindricis. Petala viginti quatuor, alba, diftantia, fetacea, breviffima, quali totidem filamenta absque antheris, germini incumbentia. Filamenta fubulata, petalis fimillima, fed breviora. Antherae fufcefcentes. Germen inferum, orbiculatum, magnum, convexum,fupra laeve.Sty It quinque, approximate, breves. Stigmata recurva.