Small diffuse annual or perennial herbs, often woody at base, with sub-sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate leaves, axillary and solitary, spurred pink flowers and 3-lobed, glabrous, ovoid capsules containing ovoid-ellipsoid, longitudinally striated, yellowish-white seeds.

improves memory, vitality, for consumption, asthma, fever, leprosy, dandruff