a herb 2–3 ft. (or more?) high; stem simple and with only 1 flower-spike or paniculately branched with 3 to several spikes, obtusely 4-angled or terete, with 6–8 ribs, thinly to densely adpressed-puberulous with very minute reflexed hairs; leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl, ascending or spreading, 2–5 in. long, 1/6–1 1/6 in. broad, linear-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute, tapering from below the middle to the sessile base, serrate, some of the upper leaves nearly entire, glabrous or thinly sprinkled with microscopic hairs on both sides and more densely on the veins beneath; secondary veins obliquely ascending (not horizontal); flower-spike 1–3 3/4 in. long and including the corollas 1–1 1/4 in. in diam. when dried; bracts deflexed, 3–5 lin. long, linear-lanceolate and acuminate or linear-subulate, ciliolate; calyx-tube 1/2 lin. long and cup-like when in flower, elongating to 2 lin. long and gibbous on the lower side at the base in fruit; teeth 2–3 lin. long, spine-like, puberulous, with small membranous lobules between them, closing the mouth of the tube whilst the seeds are maturing, spreading outwards when they ripen; corolla abruptly bent at about the middle of the tube, thinly or thickly puberulous outside on the upper part, pale pink or rosy-purple (Tyson); tube 4–5 lin. long when measured along the bend, very slender at the basal half, abruptly dilating to 1 1/4 lin. in vertical diam. at the upper part; upper lip 1 lin. long, 3-toothed; lower lip 2–2 1/2 lin. long, boat-shaped, curved; nutlets 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, flattened on the back, keeled down the inner face, smooth, at first pale brown, finally dark brown. null
