Stem shrubby, upright, simple, six or seven feet high, 
very closely covered with leaves. Leaves recurved-spread- 
ing, linear-lanceolate, roughish at edge, cuspidate, smooth, 
dilated at base. Raceme panicled, terminal, many-flowered, 
nearly erect. lowers violet, supported at base by three 
small nearly opposite bractez. _ 
