an erect shrub about 2 ft. high; branches erect, leafy, slender, pubescent; leaves erect, 3–4 lin. long, about 1/4 lin. in diam., flat on the upper side, convex below, acutely mucronate, thinly pilose when young, soon becoming glabrous; involucres 1-flowered, arranged in sessile solitary terminal spikes; spikes few-flowered, about 1/2 in. long, more or less ellipsoid; subtending bracts 1/4 in. long, linear-subulate, ciliate; involucre 2 1/2 lin. long, bilabiate, pubescent outside, upper lip lanceolate, entire, lower tripartite to near the base, segments subulate, subacute; perianth-tube as long as the claws of the segments, glabrous; segments 2–2 1/2 lin. long, linear-spathulate; claw nearly glabrous; limb obtuse, villous; anthers sessile, rounded; ovary globose, villous; style 2 1/4 lin. long, subterete; stigmatic disk 1/4 lin. long, obovate. null
