a dwarf herb, simple, 3–4 in. high, dusky when dried; stem erect or ascending, firm, glabrous below, viscid-puberulous above; leaves scale-like, opposite or subopposite, the lower rather crowded, the upper less approximate, oval or oblong, concave, adpressed to the stem or suberect, 1/12– 1/2 in. long, 1/15– 1/8 in. broad, glabrous or viscid-puberulous on the back or margin; flowers rather numerous, about 1 in. long; racemes dense or at base lax, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, terminal; pedicels unequal, the lowest 1/8– 4/5 in. long, the upper very short; bracteoles sublinear, 2/3 in. long or less; calyx about 5/6 in. long, 5-cleft about 1/2-way down, glandular-puberulous outside, narrowly campanulate, somewhat turbinate at the base; lobes sublanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, unequal in breadth; corolla not membranous, slightly glandular-puberulous outside, sulphur-yellow, obliquely campanulate; tube somewhat curved, 3/4– 7/8 in. long, about 1/3 in. broad near the top; limb more or less spreading, 3/4–1 in. in diam.; lobes rounded, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; filaments minutely glandular; anthers glabrous; stigma subglobose, undivided, glabrous, somewhat compressed. null
