an erect or ascending herb, apparently annual, rather rigid, very viscid-pubescent, 5–10 in. high, much branched about the base; branches alternate or opposite, divaricate or ascending, subvirgate, pallid, leafy; leaves alternate or opposite, ovate, acute, or the lowermost obtuse, shortly narrowed or subtruncate at the base, irregularly or incisely dentate, membranous, viscid, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/6– 3/4 in. broad, flat, spreading, the uppermost subsessile; lower petioles viscid-pubescent, up to 3/8– 1/2 in. long; flowers axillary and racemose, numerous, about 2/3 in. long when expanded, together forming terminal rather lax leafy racemes; pedicels alternate, 1-flowered, 2/5–1 in. long, viscid-pubescent, divaricate; calyx 1/6– 1/4 in. long, viscid-pubescent, deeply 5-lobed; segments linear, obtuse; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slightly and gradually dilated above, nearly straight or a little curved, sparingly glandular, 1/2– 5/8 in. long; limb spreading, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam., purplish?, nearly glabrous; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, entire, 1/8– 1/5 in. long; stamens and style included; capsule ovoid-oblong, sprinkled with glands, 1/5– 1/4 in. long. null
