Herbs up to 30 cm. high or more; stems subquadrangular (the angles rounded), glabrous, hirtellous, the hairs sometimes arranged in two lines; leaf blades lanceolate, up to 8 cm. long and 2.5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate (the tip itself sometimes blunt), narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, thin, shallowly serrate, the upper surface moderately pilose, the hairs 1.5 mm. long, curved, the lower surface sparingly hirtellous, the hairs up to 0.75 mm. long, the costa and lateral veins rather inconspicuous; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, hirtellous; spikes terminal, about 2 cm. long and broad; bracts imbricate, ovate, 17 mm. long, 11 mm. wide (or the uppermost somewhat smaller), acuminate or acute at apex, pilose and ciliate; bractlets lanceolate, 10 mm. long, 3 mm, wide at middle, acute, entire or nearly so, ciliate; corolla purple, hypocrateriform, finely pubescent, 2.5 cm. long, the cylindrical basal portion of the tube 1.5 mm. broad, the throat 6 mm. broad, the limb about 12 mm. broad, the lobes ovate, rounded, about 6 mm. long and broad; stamens included; capsule ovoid, puberulous.