A slender annual herb 6–8 in. high; stem and branches puberulous the latter short, ascending, not more than 3/4 in. long. Leaves very small, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, more or less rounded at the base, 1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, rather thick, slightly scabrous on both surfaces; petiole very short, minutely puberulous; stipules subulate-filiform, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, slightly puberulous towards the base. Male flowers: solitary or subsolitary in the axils of the leaves on the lower part of the branches; females solitary in the upper part. Male sepals 5, 1-seriate, elliptic, rounded at the apex, 1/2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, 1-nerved, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, thin, smooth. Stamens 5; filaments free; anthers dehiscing obliquely. Female sepals 5, similar to the male. Disk entire, flattened, thin, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous; styles free to the base, very small, bilobed, lobes slightly recurved, subacute. Capsule 1 1/2 lin. in diam., depressed-globose, faintly striate. Seeds laterally compressed, convex on the back, minutely pitted, giving the appearance of a very close striation, 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad on the back.