an erect or ascending herb, annual, glabrous or slightly puberulous, 3–12 in. high, nearly simple or sparingly branched from the base; stem and branches slender; radical leaves rosulate, oblanceolate or obovate, runcinate-pinnatifid or sinuate-dentate, obtuse at the apex, tapering towards the base, membranous, together with the petiole 3/4– 1/2 in. long, 1/6– 1/3 in. broad; lobes or teeth obtuse; upper leaves few, alternate, distant, the uppermost smallest; peduncles axillary and quasi-terminal, elongated, slender, 1-flowered, 1/2–3 in. long, together forming terminal somewhat leafy terminal quasi-racemes, the upper in pairs or subumbellate; calyx-segments subulate-acuminate from a broad cordate-dilated overlapping base, 1/10– 1/5 in. long, shortly ciliate on the margin; corolla 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, copper-coloured, with two small pouches; filaments all subulate; anthers 4, glabrous; capsule ovoid, 1/5– 1/4 in. long. null
