A rather large, repent, pendent, glabrous, succulent, epiphytic herb; stem 3-5 mm. thick when dry X 30 cm. or more long, rooting at the lower nodes, drying angular-sulcate, internodes mostly 3-6 cm. long, occasionally up to 10 cm.; leaves 2-4 at a node, more commonly opposite, subrhombically lance-elliptic, oblanceolate, or rounded, 1.5-4 cm. wide X 3-7 cm. long, apex attenuately acuminate, blunt, base acute or subcuneate, drying submembranous, translucent, palmately 3- to 5- nerved, if 5-nerved the outermost pair of laterals thin and obscure; petiole 5-10 mm. long; spikes terminal or occasionally axillary, commonly solitary, loosely flowered, 2-3 mm. thick X 8-15 cm. long or occasionally somewhat longer; peduncle 1-5 cm. long; bracts oblong-ovate-peltate; fruit globose-ovoid, about 1 mm. long, obliquely pointed, stigma apical.
