a leafy, bushy shrub, 8 ft. high; young stems downy; branches pubescent; leaves terete, lanceolate-oblong or ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse or rounded at the shortly petiolate base, entire or serrulate, puberulous or glabrescent above, paler beneath and pubescent especially along the somewhat prominent veins, rugulose, 1–6 in. long, 1/3–2 in. broad; petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long; cymes axillary, many-flowered, twice or thrice trichotomous, pubescent, bracteate, 1 1/4–3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, acute, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; pedicels bibracteolate, slender, 1/8– 2/3 in. long; flowers about 1/2 in. long; calyx hemispherical, 1/8 in. long; segments oval or roundly ovate, very obtuse, shortly pubescent, ciliate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; corolla white streaked with pink, red inside, 1/2 in. in diam.; upper lip subrotund, very obtuse, emarginate or shortly bifid, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, 3/10 in. broad; lower lip subglobose, inflated, recurved on the margin, 2/7– 3/8 in. long, 1/4 in. high, very shortly 3-lobed at the apex; two longer stamens exserted, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, with a dilated tooth near the base; two shorter stamens included, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; anthers reddish blue; ovary 2-celled; style 1/12– 1/7 in. long; capsule ovoid, minutely glandular, acute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 1/8 in. broad. null
