A slender-sLemmed, repent herb; stem filiform, less than 1 mm. thick, branch-ing, minutely hirtellous, internodes mostly about 1-1.5 cm. long; leaves alternate, ovate-elliptic, apex acute or obtuse, base subpeltate with the margin barely con-tinuous over the petiole, or acutish, palmately 3-nerved, the nerves slender, puberulent on both sides, ciliolate near the apex, glandular-dotted, drying thin, translucent; petiole filiform, 1-2 mm. long, shallowly grooved above, minutely hirtellous; spikes terminal, 1 mm. thick X 3-5 cm. long, densely flowered; peduncle less than 5 mm. long, minutely hirtellous, with 2 small, lanceolate bracts near the middle, the bracts bristly at the apex; floral bracts round-peltate; fruit subglobose, about 0.6 mm. long, apex oblique, stigma subapical.
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