an erect or ascending herb, annual, nearly glabrous, shining, 1/3–1 1/2 ft. high, simple or branched from the base, slender; branches ascending or decumbent, more or less leafy below and naked above; leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute at the apex, subcordate, subtruncate or very obtuse at the shortly petiolate or subsessile base, more or less coarsely serrate-dentate, membranous or slightly fleshy, 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, 1/8– 3/4 in. broad; racemes oblong, terminating the stem and branches, lax, few- or several-flowered, 2–6 in. long; bracts alternate, linear or lanceolate, entire, denticulate or rarely pinnatifid, 1/8– 3/5 in. long, sessile; common peduncles ranging up to 7 in. long, and pedicels to 1 1/4 in.; calyx-segments linear or narrowly oval, obtuse, 1/12– 1/6 in. long, nerved, minutely glandular-puberulous; corolla 1/6– 1/4 in. long and broad, not bearded, white or coloured; lobes rounded, 1/12 in. long; pouch blunt or 1–2-papillate at the apex, about 1/40 in. long and broad; capsule obovoid-oblong or oval-oblong, broad with an obtuse-angled notch at the apex, narrowed towards the base, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad; valves with their apiculate tips widely diverging. null
