Stem ascending, slender, branched in the upper part; branches short, more or less grooved, glabrous; leaves small, scattered, lanceolate, acute, recurved, about 1 lin. long, glabrous; cymules about 3-flowered; flowers sessile or subsessile; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, with black tips, shorter than the flowers, more or less keeled, with membranous minutely ciliate edges; perianth 2/3 lin. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, fleshy, slightly hooded, apex and margins densely ciliate; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; style 1/4 lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers; fruit ellipsoid, contracted at the base, 2 lin. long including the persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed from the base, slightly reticulate between the ribs.
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Slender, hemiparasitic shrublet. Leaves almost scale-like, scattered, lanceolate, recurved above. Flowers subsessile, in small, terminal clusters, whitish, with exserted anthers.
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