leaves linear-lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, pinnatifido-dentate, the teeth filiform, glandularly ciliate; flowers racemose; pedicels longer than the bract; sepals lanceolate. acuminate, glandular at the margin, as long as the obtuse petals. The whole plant viscid. Stem shrubby, 3–6 feet high, branches and ramuli brownish, glabrous. Leaves crowded at the end of the branchlets, one nerved, ciliate with long and short hairs, and pinnatifid with patent ciliæform, 2–3 lineal subulate teeth, black when dry, 2–2 1/2 inches long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide at base. Racemes ending the branchlets, villous, 4–6 flowered; pedicels 6–12 lines long, bibracteolate in the middle, and subtended by a leafy bractea of their own length or shorter. Sepals from an ovato-lanceolate base subulate, acuminate. Petals oval, pale rosy or white. Anthers oblong. Capsule valves ovate.
