an erect herb, glabrous nearly throughout, glaucescent, annual, strictly erect, 8–9 in. high, branched at the base or simple; branches few, slender; leaves mostly basal and rosulate, lanceolate or narrowly oval, obtuse at the apex, tapering towards the base, pinnatifid, membranous, pallid especially beneath, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. broad; lobes obtuse or apiculate; petioles 1/4– 1/2 in. long; upper leaves few, alternate, successively smaller; peduncles slender, suberect or somewhat arching, 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, axillary and narrowly bracteate at the base, together arranged in terminal simple leafy quasi-racemes and occupying the upper half of the stems; calyx-segments ovate and lanceolate, more or less acute, minutely ciliolate with very short glandular hairs on the whitish margin, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; corolla (exclusive of its spurs) about 1/4 in. broad, purple; spurs 3/5 in. long, rather slender, obtuse; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers small, glabrous, converging; capsule ovoid, glabrous, 1/7– 1/4 in. long. null
