Thesium dissitiflorum Schltr.

A small decumbent shrub, much-branched; branches and branchlets rigid, terete, glabrous, the latter with spiny tips; leaves scattered, subulate-linear, often curled in to the stem when dry, 1 1/2 lin. long, concave on the upper side, convex below, glabrous; flowers in axillary clusters usually about 2 lin. apart, 1-3 together; bracts shorter than the flower-clusters, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, becoming black, caducous; bracteoles 3-6, forming a small involucre, ovate, acute, concave, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; perianth 1 lin. long; segments 3/4 lin. long, with conspicuous external glands between each, margin slightly involute, glabrous; anthers 1/4 lin. long; filaments 1/4 lin. long; style very short; fruit subglobose, contracted at the base, 1 1/2 lin. long, prominently 10-nerved, finely reticulate between the nerves.