a glabrous erect herb, shining, perennial, about 2 ft. high, rigid, much branched near the hard or somewhat woody base, sparingly branched above; branches erect or ascending, wiry, rigid, often broom-like; internodes mostly exceeding or nearly equalling the leaves; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped to the sessile or subsessile subdecurrent base, entire or denticulate, rigid, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/40– 1/6 in. broad; racemes terminal, oblong, many-flowered, rather dense, 3–6 in. long, bracteate; bracts alternate, lanceolate or sublinear, smaller than the leaves; pedicels axillary to the bracts, erect-patent or ascending, 1/8– 2/3 in. long, rather slender, rigid; flowers about 1/2 in. in their greatest length; calyx-segments 1/12– 1/8 in. long, linear-oval, obtuse, glabrous or minutely sessile-glandular; upper corolla-lip 1/4 in. long; lobes oblong, rounded at the apex, 1/8 in. long; lower lip nearly equal to or rather shorter than the upper; palate shortly bearded; spur conical-prolonged, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, straight or nearly so; capsules semi-elliptic or oblong, subtruncate and emarginate at the apex, unequally rounded at the base, 1/8– 1/3 in. long, 1/10– 1/6 in. broad, not or slightly 2-horned at the apex. null
