a low herb, more or less pubescent, perennial, 1 1/2–4 in. high, with the habit of a Primula or Plantago, stemless; leaves radical, rosulate, broadly oval, rounded or very obtuse, usually abruptly narrowed at the shortly petiolate base, many-nerved, rather fleshy, rigid, thick, glabrous above or nearly so, more or less densely hispid-pubescent beneath and along the margin, entire or repand, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad or larger; petiole broad, pubescent, 1/4– 1/2 in. long or more, sometimes bright scarlet; scapes erect or ascending, several or solitary, tetragonal, pubescent; flowers racemose or subcorymbose, pedicellate, about 1/3– 1/2 in. long, several or rather numerous; pedicels mostly 1/4– 2/3 in. long, pubescent, bracteate at the base; bracts oval, sessile, concave, often apiculate, pubescent along the middle of the back and on the margins, mostly 1/5– 2/5 in. long; calyx 1/5– 1/4 in. long, green, 5-dentate, pubescent at least along the ribs; teeth deltoid-ovate, pointed, about 1/16 in. long, subequal; corolla glabrous or very nearly so, white with a yellowish lip and violet-coloured helmet, glandular-pulverulent on the gibbosities; filaments of the anterior pair of stamens slightly dilated and sharply bent near the base, not or scarcely appendaged; anthers glabrous. null
