an erect or ascending branched herb 3 or 4 in. high, everywhere densely hispid, sometimes rather woody at the base; leaves very shortly petiolate, obovate or sometimes ovate, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–4 lin. broad, obtuse, narrowed at the base, quite entire or few-toothed at the apex; whorls usually 2–4, somewhat distant, 6–10-flowered; bracts linear, as long as the calyx; calyx subcampanulate, hispid, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; teeth 7–10, deltoid or subulate, unequal, 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long, acute, somewhat spinescent; corolla 4 lin. long; tube 2 3/4 lin. long, densely villous on the upper part; upper lip 1 1/2 lin. long, ovate, hirsute, emarginate; lower lip 1 1/2–2 lin. long; median lobe suborbicular, 1 lin. long, about 1 1/2 lin. broad. null
