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Information Perennial. Leaves several, loosely associated in a tuft, young ones sessile, flowering ones becoming conspicuously stalked, linear-oblong to ovate, up to 80 × 40 mm., green above, flushed reddish-violet below, pilose on both surfaces, glandular hairs frequent below, margin crenate-dentate, apex obtuse, base subcordate to cuneate, stalk (petiolode) up to 40 mm. long, pilose. Inflorescences one or two at junction of lamina and stalk, few-flowered. Peduncles up to c. 40 mm. long; pedicels up to 15 mm. long, both wiry, sparsely pubescent. Bracts minute. Calyx divided to the base into 5 linear-lanceolate segments, 2 × 0.5 mm., sparsely pubescent with glandular and eglandular hairs. Corolla c. 12–15 mm. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent outside, the roof inside sparsely bearded with multicellular and unicellular hairs, white, tube flushed magenta-pink above, magenta-pink median stripe on inside of each corolla lobe, floor and walls of tube and base of lower lip profusely spotted magenta-pink; tube funnel-shaped, slightly curved, 9 mm. long, c. 2–3 mm. across mouth; limb oblique, lower lip c. 4–6 mm. long, all lobes elliptic-oblong, 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm. Stamens arising in upper third of corolla tube; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anther lobes <1 mm. long, blue-black at maturity; staminodes minute. Ovary c. 3 mm. long, pubescent; style c. 5 mm. long, dorsoventrally compressed; stigma stomatomorphic, papillose. Capsule 7–10 mm. long, crowned with the persistent style base. Seeds 0.3–0.5 mm. long, reticulate.