a perennial herb, erect or ascending, rigid, suffruticose and closely branched at and near the base, nearly glabrous, 1–2 ft. high; branches opposite, slender, hard; branchlets subvirgate, tetragonous; leaves opposite, entire, shortly petiolate, acute or mucronulate, the lower lanceolate or ovate-oblong, entire, 1/2– 3/4 in. long and 1/6– 1/3 in. broad, the upper linear and 1/4–1 in. long, the broader truncate or subauriculate at the base; racemes terminal, simple or divided below, numerous, several- or many-flowered, oblong in flower, elongating in fruit; pedicels slender, minutely glandular-puberulous, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, the upper shorter; bracts ovate or lanceolate, small, acute or mucronulate, entire, minutely glandular-puberulous; calyx-segments lanceolate or oblong, scarcely acute or obtuse, glandular-puberulous, 1/10– 1/6 in. long, nerved at least in fruit; corolla pink, 1/3 in. long; spurs 1/6 in. long, obtuse; filaments all filiform, minutely glandular, about 1/15 in. long; capsules ovoid-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1/5– 2/5 in. long, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad. null
