a wiry herb, perhaps perennial, glabrous below, somewhat glandular-pilose about the inflorescence, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; stems decumbent with ascending or erect branches, the latter slender and tetragonous; upper internodes longer than the leaves, the lower shorter; leaves opposite, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse at the apex, more or less truncate or subauriculate at the base, glabrous, rather thickly herbaceous, with few teeth, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, 1/30– 1/8 in. broad; petioles not exceeding 1/10 in. long, narrowly decurrent at the base; racemes rather lax, terminal, several-flowered, 2–3 in. long; pedicels alternate, erect-patent, very slender, delicately glandular-pilose, 1/5– 3/5 in. long; bracts ovate, pointed, embracing the base of the pedicels, 1/12– 1/10 in. long; calyx-segments ovate or oval-oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, minutely glandular-pilose, 1/12– 1/10 in. long; corolla about 2/3 in. broad; spurs 1/6– 1/4 in. long; filaments 4, linear, flattened, more or less densely clothed with stalked glands, all antheriferous, two of them curved about the middle; ovary glabrous. null
