a branched herb, glabrous or very nearly so, apparently perennial; stems procumbent or erect, elongated, branched or almost flagelliform, leafy, quadrangular; leaves opposite, often secund, ovate, obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or subcordate at the base, toughly membranous, sharply serrate, green and somewhat glaucous on both faces, rather paler beneath, shortly petiolate, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 1/3– 4/5 in. broad; teeth revolute-cartilaginous, with a hard rigid tip; petioles 1/24– 1/6 in. long, narrowly decurrent; racemes terminal and in the upper axils, slender, few- or many-flowered, 2–8 in. long, simple or divided about the base; pedicels filiform, 1/6–1 in. long, spreading; bracts alternate, smaller than the leaves; calyx-segments oval- or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or subobtuse, roughly ciliolate on the margin, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; corolla 1/2– 2/3 in. broad, pink, with scattered small glands on the back and margin; spurs 2, diverging, rather obtuse, about 1/4 in. long; filaments sparingly glandular, all antheriferous, rather short, linear-filiform; ovary glabrous; style short; capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, obtuse, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 1/8 in. broad. null
