pubescent; stem erect, much branched, leafy, naked at top, scabrid; leaves obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, the upper smaller, often narrower; flowers racemose; bracts lanceolate; calyces minutely pubescent, in flower cylindrical, in fruit longish-clavate; thecaphore as long as the ovate capsule. Perennial, 1–2 feet high, with spreading branches, below covered with spreading hairs, above shortly pubescent. Leaves 1/2–1 inch long, 4–6 lines wide, pubescent on both sides, the upper ones remote. Raceme secund, 4–6 flowered; pedicels 1–3 lines long, the lowest longest. Calyx 8 lines long, shortly pubescent on the nerves, the teeth obtuse, 1 line long. Petals carneous or purple, the lamina bifid, coronate. Caps. 4 lines long. Differs from the two following in the taller and more slender stem; green leaves, not fleshy; more slender, and not funnel-shaped calyx, and by the fruit; from S. obtusifolia, Willd., to which it comes nearest, in the stem naked and scabrous near the summit, the longer and narrower calyx and longer thecaphore.
