Japan Flora: Glabrous annual; stems erect, much branched, later becoming slightly woody, 20-40 cm. long; leaves many, fleshy, sessile, terete, linear to oblanceolate, very obtuse, 5-35 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; flowers few in leaf-axils, sessile, the perianth rather fleshy, to 4 mm. across in fruit, the segments ovate-orbicular, subobtuse; utricles depressed-globose, the pericarp tightly ap- pressed around the seeds; stigmas 2; seeds lenticular, horizontal, 1.5-2 mm. across, the testa membranous; Sept.-Oct. Seashores;

Kyushu (n. distr.). Korea.