Thesium brachygyne Schltr.

Stems very slender, branched, 1/3 lin. thick, slightly angular, glabrous; branches ascending, sparingly leafy; leaves scattered, slender, subterete, acute, 3-6 lin. long, about 1/5 lin. thick, distinctly warted when dry, otherwise glabrous; flowers arranged in small globose terminal clusters about 2 lin. in diam., often with a younger shoot from just below one side of the older clusters; bracts shorter than the flowers, narrowly lanceolate, acutely acuminate, with slightly membranous entire margins, glabrous; bracteoles reaching to the base of the perianth, subulate, acute; perianth 3/4 lin. long, with a ring of hairs in the throat; segments oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 2/3 lin. long, rather densely bearded with woolly hairs; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, about 1/6 lin. long; stigma sessile; fruits ovoid-globose, stipitate, 1 1/2 lin. long, including the stipe and persistent perianth, distinctly 10-ribbed and reticulate.