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Herb with milky sap; stems prostrate, pubescent, often red; leaves opposite, simple, oblong-elliptic, margin toothed; flowers minute, clustered into cup-like cyathia; cyathia borne in the leaf axils; cyathial appendages 4, minute, rim-like extensions of the 4 glands; capsules coarsely pubescent on the angles, the faces glabrous.