Small branched suffrutescent plants up to 8 cm. high; stems up to 2 mm. in diameter, terete, striate (at least the upper portions), densely hirtellous, the hairs white, variously curved, about 0.25 mm. long; internodes mostly 1 cm. long, occasionally up to 2.5 cm. long; leaf blades ovate, up to 2 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide, subacute, rounded at base and briefly decurrent on the petiole, the upper surface. glabrous or sparingly hirtellous, the costa more densely so, the hairs about 0.25 mm. long, white, curved, the costa and lateral veins (4 or 5 pairs) delicate and rather obscure, the lower surface moderately and finely hirtellous, especially the veins, the hairs similar to those of the upper surface, the costa and lateral veins more prominent than those above, the veinlets rather finely and delicately reticulate; petioles slender, up to 4 mm. long, densely hirtellous, the hairs similar to those of the leaf blades; flowers one to several, sessile in the axils of the uppermost leaves or terminating axillary peduncles up to 4 mm. long, these as are the stems, densely hirtellous; bractlets subtending the calyx subulate, up to 2.5 mm. long, 0.25 to 0.5 mm. wide at base, gradually narrowed to a slender point, hirtellous; calyx 5 mm. long, hirtellous, the segments narrow, 0.75 mm. wide at base, gradually narrowed to a slender tip; corollas purplish red (Haught), 15 to 17 mm. long, hirtellous (the lobes sparingly so), with spreading hairs about 0.25 mm. long, the tube cylindric, 1.5 mm. in diameter at base, reduced at 3 mm. above base to 1 mm., thence gradually enlarged to 1.5 mm. at mouth, the upper lip ovate, about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide near base, the tip rounded, the lower lip 3-parted, the lobes elliptic, about 6 mm. long and 3.5 mm. wide, rounded; stamens inserted near the mouth of the corolla tube, the filaments 2.5 mm. long, glabrous, the anthers 1.5 mm. long, their lobes more or less superposed; style about 15 mm. long, glabrous toward tip, minutely hirtellous from about the middle to base, the stigma linear-lanceolate; capsules clavate, 7 to 8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, about 1.5 mm. thick, densely hirtellous, the hairs spreading, 100 long, mostly straight and spreading, the capsule narrowed to a blunt tip, the solid basal stipe about 2.5 mm. long; retinacula 0.75 mm. long and nearly as broad, concave, rounded-truncate at tip; seeds 4, about 1.25 mm. in diameter, somewhat flattened, tuberculate. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1708760, collected on very dry limestone soil at La Paz, Department of Magdalena, Colom- bia, 200 meters altitude, January 14, 1944, by Oscar Haught (No. 3929).