Sparingly branched shrub 10-30 cm. tall. Branchlets stout, glab., remaining rough in age, length of internodes c. = diam. Lvs loosely imbricate, patent or deflexed, 10-18 × 6-12 mm., elliptic to ovate, thick and glaucous, ± red-edged; lf-bud without sinus, lf-base broad but not cordate; lamina subacute to obtuse, entire, glab. except for marginal fringe of long silky hairs; midrib obscure. Infls lateral, simple, peduncle villous, us. < lvs, spike broad, c. 1·5 cm. long. Fls sessile, bracts and calyx-lobes c. 3 mm. long, narrow-triangular, acute, fringed with long cilia, in some plants pubescent on outer surface. Corolla white, tube narrow, us. > calyx, = narrow spreading lobes. Capsule not greatly compressed, narrowed to subacute tip, dark, glab. to slightly pubescent, > calyx.

n = 20