Herbs biennial or perennial, to 37 cm tall. Stems erect, slightly angular, often branched from base, glandular on upper part. Basal leaves early deciduous. Stem leaves alternate; petiole ca. 1 cm, narrowly winged; leaf blade broadly ovate (lower leaves) to ovate-lanceolate (upper leaves), 2--3 X 1.4--1.7 cm, abaxially glaucescent, glandular pulverulent, sparsely red glandular punctate near margin, base cuneate, apex acute; veins 4 or 5 pairs; veinlets inconspicuous. Racemes terminal, to 9 cm, 2.5--3 cm in diam., apex rounded; bracts subulate-acuminate, ca. 5 mm; margin membranous. Pedicel to 6 mm. Calyx ca. 5 mm; lobes lanceolate, ca. 4 X 1.2 mm, margin membranous, glandular striate outside, apex long acuminate, ± blunt. Corolla white or tinged with red, to 1 cm, deeply parted; lobes oblong, ca. 6.5 X 2 mm, sparsely red striate; sinus between lobes acute. Stamens ca. as long as corolla lobes and adnate to them; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style to 5 mm. Immature capsule subglobose, ca. 3.5 mm in diam. Fl. Aug.

* Wet streamside meadows. SE Xizang (Tsarong Xian).