Anisomeles malabarica (L.) R.Br.

Subshrubby, 0.5-1.5 m. Stem and branches densely villose or woolly. Leaves membranaceous to thick-chartaceous, oblong to narrowly ovate, 3-8 by 1.5-3 cm, acute, crenate-serrate, base broadly acute or shortly cuneate, entire, densely woolly beneath, sparsely hirsute above; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm, softly woolly. Flowers many (10-15 or less) in dense axillary whorls, the whorls distantly disposed below, more or less approximate above, forming an interrupted spicate inflorescence. Bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1-3 mm long. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 6-8 mm long, in fruit 8-10 mm, hirsute or densely villose externally, teeth lanceolate, much shorter (less than ⅓) than the tube, ciliate. Corolla lilac or pale blue, 6-10 (-14) mm long, puberulent. Filaments puberulent or pubescent. Nutlets ellipsoid, 2 by 1 mm, smooth and shining.

Open, often waste places, mostly under seasonal climatic conditions, at low altitude. Fl. Febr.-Sept.

Can be grown by seedlings.