an erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 1–2 ft. high; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous-scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent; middle internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaceous, scabrid on both faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long; spikes lax, elongating; bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx; bracteoles linear-subulate or sublanceolate, about 1/4– 3/8 in. long in flower, ciliolate; calyx narrow, about 1/2 in. long, hispidulous; tube about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 10-ribbed; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, 1/6– 1/3 in. long in flower, elongating in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved near the apex; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, 1/3 in. long. null
