Psammotropha anguina Compton

A sprawling or semiprostrate shrublet with lax branching. Stems covered by closely appressed leaves in 4 ranks but not forming acute angles, the shoots terete or very obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 1.5-2 mm long, acute, with or without a deciduous pair-point, the edges much thickened and partly revolute. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, crowded, sessile or nearly so. Bracts thin, boat-shaped, concave, acute, 2-3 mm long, longer than the pedicels, not thickened at the edges, the midrib not apparent. Perianth about 1 mm long. Stamens short, on a very small disc. Ovary 3-angled; stigmas 3.