A translation of Cockayne's description is: Biennial (?) herb c. 15 cm. tall. Stem slender, simple, terete, strict, purplish, 2-striate. Radical lvs rosulate, few, spathulate, ± 2 cm. long, obtuse; cauline lvs in remote opp. pairs, sessile, connate at base, narrowly triangular, ± 1*5 cm. long, acute, margin us. brownish-purple. Fls 3-5, c. 15 mm. diam., in umbels or terminal and solitary; calyx ± 8 mm. long, cut 1/2-? way into 4 subulate, acuminate lobes; corolla 21/2 times as long as calyx, white, deeply cut into obovate, obtuse, very shortly mucronate lobes.