A procumbent herb, hard and almost woody at the base, glossy, glabrous or slightly puberulous above; root apparently perennial; stems much branched, diffusely rambling amidst shrubs, about 1-2 ft. long, slender, wiry; branchlets compressedly quadrangular, leafy; leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, acute at the apex, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the base, shortly petiolate or the upper sessile, more or less serrate, 1/6-1 in. long, 1/15-2/5 in. broad; racemes terminating the stem and branches, lax, elongating, slender, often flexuous, one-or few-flowered, bracteate, ranging up to 3 in. long; bracts alternate, sublinear, sessile, 1/10-2/10 in. long; pedicels slender, 1/6-2/3 in. long; calyx-segments lanceolate-linear, subacute, 3-nerved, 1/16-1/8 in. long, minutely glandular-pilose; corolla white and purple, lobes often marked beneath with red lines; lips about equal, 1/12-1/6 in. long, lobes short, oblong, rounded at the apex; spur straight, narrowly cylindrical or conical-prolonged, obtuse, turning yellow, about 1/12-1/6 in. long; palate pubescent; capsules semi-elliptical, scarcely contracted and broadly notched at the apex with the outer points diverging or suberect, unequal and nearly rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, glabrous, 1/6-1/5 in. long, 1/5-1/4 in broad.
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