an annual herb, erect, slender, shortly viscid-pubescent, corymbosely branched above, simple below, 3–7 in. high, with habit almost of Gilia lacinata, Ruiz and Pav.; stem leafy; branches alternate, spreading-ascending, sparingly leafy; leaves linear or nearly so or the lower oblanceolate, obtuse, a little narrowed towards the sessile or subsessile base, subentire, 1/6– 1/2 in. long; teeth obtuse; flowers 1/3– 2/5 in. long, sessile or subsessile, rather few or several, spicate; spikes terminal, capitate and dense or in fruit laxer below; bract linear, obtuse, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, sessile, entire, adhering to the calyx-tube; calyx 1/6 in. long, bilabiate nearly half-way down, viscid-pubescent, 5-dentate; teeth deltoid or lanceolate, short; corolla-tube slender, glandular-papillose outside, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat orange-yellow, glabrous or pilose; limb spreading, 1/6– 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes 5, obovate-oval, entire; stamens glabrous; filaments filiform, short or very short, inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube; one pair of anthers shortly exserted, the other appearing at the corolla-mouth; style filiform, shortly exserted; capsule oval, not much compressed, blunt, shining, glabrous, 1/6 in. long. null
