stem branched, hairy; branches spreading; leaves fascicled, erect, or spreading, linear, acuminated, ciliated, upper ones longer or larger; flowers solitary, terminal; lobes of calyx lanceolate or acuminated, longer than the leaves, ciliated or laciniately toothed, glabrous or hairy outwards; corolla infundibuliform, variegated; capsule glabrous. Root perennial. Stem 1/2–1 foot, much leafy. Leaves scattered, with numerous smaller ones in the axils, glabrous, ciliated by white, rigid, subcartilaginous hairs, 2–5 lines long, 1/2–1 line wide, calyx lobes 6–8 lines long, 1–2 lines wide. Corolla in var. α. one inch and more long, in var. β. and γ. often smaller, in var. γ. 3–4 lines long, blue or rose coloured, with a deep purple or blue circle at the base of the lobes. Capsule cylindrical.
