Stems weak and probably procumbent, much-branched from the base; branches slender, subterete, minutely scabrous, reddish-brown when dry; leaves numerous, linear, acutely mucronate, 2-3 lin. long, convex below, flat above, at length recurved, minutely scabrous, fairly fleshy; flowers solitary; bracts and bracteoles longer than the flowers, the former leaf-like, adnate to the peduncle; peduncle very short; bracteoles 2, about half the length of the bracts, acutely mucronate; perianth-segments triangular, 1/3 lin. long, hooded, glabrous; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/8 lin. long; style 1/7 lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers; fruits ellipsoid, capped by the persistent perianth, 1 2/3 lin. long, 1 lin. in diam., ribbed and reticulate, glabrous.
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