an undershrub, 1–2 ft. high, much branched, erect; branches alternate, opposite or fasciculate, divaricate, slender, woody and nearly glabrous below, leafy, somewhat glandular-puberulous and very slender towards the apex; leaves fasciculate, sublinear, obtuse, slightly or scarcely narrowed towards the sessile base, glabrous or nearly so, entire, rather thick, 1/6– 1/8 in. long; flowers racemose and axillary, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, lilac or deep purple; racemes lax, several-flowered; pedicels rather slender, somewhat glandular, 3/16–1 in. long; bracts like the leaves but rather smaller; calyx glandular, 1/10– 1/8 in. long in flower or rather longer in fruit, deeply 5-lobed; segments lanceolate-linear, obtuse; corolla-tube subcylindrical, rather slender, somewhat dilated and curved above, sprinkled with small stalked glands, 2/5 in. long; limb more or less spreading, about 1/4– 3/8 in. in diam.; lobes obovate, 1/10– 1/6 in. long, rounded, entire or subretuse; stamens included; style glabrous, about 3/16 in. long; capsule ovoid or oblong, obsoletely glandular, 1/6– 1/4 in. long. null
