a perennial herb, glabrous or nearly so, branched from a shrubby base, 1/4–2 ft. high; branches erect or ascending, tetragonous, virgate or wiry, leafy below up to about the middle; leaves opposite, subsessile or shortly petiolate, varying from lanceolate to ovate, acute or callous-pointed at the apex, mostly cordate-auriculate at the base, somewhat thick, dentate, denticulate or nearly entire, 1/4–1 1/4 in. long, 1/12– 3/8 in. broad; racemes terminal, several- or many-flowered, simple or trichotomous at the base; pedicels slender, mostly alternate, bracteate at the base, more or less glandular, the lower 1/4–1 1/4 in. long, the upper shorter; bracts small, ovate or lanceolate, slightly glandular; calyx-segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, nerved, glandular-puberulous, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; corolla rosy or bright pink or very brilliantly scarlet, 1/2–1 in. broad; spurs obtusely conical, about 1/4– 1/2 in. long; filaments all linear-filiform, somewhat glandular, not shaggy; capsule ovoid-oblong, obtuse, minutely glandular-puberulous, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 1/8– 1/4 in. broad. null
