An annual, very slender, terrestrial herb. Rhizoids capillary, more or less branched. Leaves usually decayed at the time of flowering, loosely rosulate at the base of the scape and scattered on the rhizoids, elongate-spathulate, very narrow, very gradually passing into the long petiole, with it up to over 2 in. long, 1/3 lin. broad. Pitchers ovoid, narrowed at the mouth, 1/3 lin. long; upper lip ovate, with 4–5 short rigid hairs; lower lip a naked rim. Scape filiform, more or less flexuous, 1/2 to more than 1 ft. high, simple or sparingly branched, with few lanceolate scales, 1 lin. long. Flowers distant, 5–16; bracts and bracteoles subequal, lanceolate, acuminate, 2/3 lin. long; pedicel not or scarcely exceeding the bracts. Sepals equal, orbicular, very concave, 1 lin. long. Corolla 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur), purple or blue with a deep yellow palate; upper lip broadly ovate, entire or nearly so, about 1 1/2 lin. high; lower lip semiorbicular, broader than long, wavy; palate broad, smooth, ridges broad and low; spur rather slender, conic, straight or curved upwards, usually descending, 2–3 lin. long, densely and minutely papillose. Anthers about 1 1/2 lin. long. Pistil bottle-shaped with a very short stout neck; stigma sub-sessile; upper lip small, broadly triangular; lower lip truncate, broad and short. Capsule globose, 1 lin. in diam. Seeds angular-globose, 1/6 lin. in diam., smooth, reticulate (?). Anthers about 1/2 lin. long.
