Annual, with slender root. Stems branched, with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong; radical-leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes many, lax; bracts lanceolate, 4–6 lin. long. Calyx very bristly, 4 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright blue, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Nuts ovoid, 2 lin. long, rugose on the outer face.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2063! in Wadi Mahas, Wady Dongola and near El Korehr, Ehrenberg ex Schweinfurth.