Annual herb, erect or ascending, hispid with long often yellowish crisped hairs;branches often 4-angled. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute,serrulate, base usually unequal-sided, acute or rounded. Involucres numerous, on astalk of about the same length, crowded in small axillary shortly pedunculate globosecymes; gland minute. Capsules appressedly hairy. Seeds ovoid-trigonous, slightlytransversely rugose, light reddish-brown. (India)