suffruticose, sparsely hairy on the stem and leaves; branches spreading horizontally, reaching 1 ft. long; leaves thick, rather succulent, laxly hairy or nearly glabrous, 7/8–1 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, deltoid or rhomboid, coarsely toothed, truncate or cuneate at the base; petioles 1/2–1 1/2 in. long slender; inflorescence a simple lax raceme; verticils distant, 2–6-flowered, not pedunculate; bracts small, lanceolate, deciduous; pedicels 2–3 1/2 lin. long; fruiting calyx 3 lin. or more long, glabrous; flowering calyx 1 lin. long, campanulate, hairy; upper tooth ovate, acute; 4 other teeth lanceolate, 2 lower slightly the longer; corolla blue; tube 1/2 in. long, 1/4 in. broad, straight, obtusely saccate above a very short narrow base; upper lip 1/2 in. long and as broad as long, orbicular-oblong, divided at the apex by a triangular notch about 1 lin. deep into 2 rounded lobes; lateral lobes deltoid; lower lip of corolla 1/2 in. long; upper pair of stamens 3 1/2 lin. long; lower pair 4 1/2 lin. long; style shorter than the stamens, equally 2-fid; nut-lets not seen. null
