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Slender annual herb, erect. Stems 10-20 cm, hairy. Leaves 10-30 by 4-9 mm, (sub) petiolate, oblong, elliptic, obtuse or acute, hairy, margin thickened, crenate, shallowly dentate. Inflorescence slenderly branched, glabrous or nearly so, bracts 4 by 1 mm, or (mostly) smaller, pedicels 4-30 mm, filiform. Calyx lobes 5, 1-1.2 mm, elongate-triangular, acute, sometimes with a few hairs at the apex, further glabrous. Corolla 5-parted, 2 by 0.4 mm, about twice the length of the calyx lobes. Stamens 5; anthers 0.4 by 0.1 mm; filaments 1 mm, narrow triangular, sometimes almost filiform. Ovary 1-1.5 mm, bell-shaped to ob-conic, glabrous; top conic, up to 1 mm high; style 1.3-1.6 mm, narrow-cylindric, 3 short narrow stigmatic lobes. Fruit (only one seen, in poor condition) 2 by 2 mm, semispherical, 2-valved. Seeds numerous, triangular, brown, shining, 0.6 mm.
Herbs, annual. Stems erect, 8-20 cm tall, sparsely villous, dichotomously branched. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, ca. 2.5 × 1.2 cm, base and apex obtuse, margin denticulate. Cymes in large and lax panicles; bracts small; pedicels slender, up to 2 cm. Calyx ca. 1.5 mm; tube obconical; lobes triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Corolla blue, 5-divided to near base; lobes spreading, starlike, linear-elliptic, 2-3 mm. Stamens ca. 1.5 mm. Style almost equal to corolla in length. Capsule subglobose, ca. 3 mm in diam., 2-locular. Seeds small, broadly ellipsoid, 3-ribbed. Fl. Nov.
