Herb or undershrub, 0.30-1 m. Stem and branches puberulous. Leaves membranaceous, ovate to rhomboid, 6-8 by 2.5-4 cm, acute or acuminate, serrate, glabrescent on both surfaces, base, acute; petiole slender, 1.5-3 cm. Flowers 6-10(-30) in a verticillaster, in terminal or upper-axillary spikes, 8-15 cm long. Calyx tubular, 3-3.5 mm long, in fruit 4-4.5 mm, sparsely puberulous and papillose-glandular externally, but hardly 2-lipped. Corolla white, tubular, 5-6.5 mm long; limb 2-lipped; upper lip short. Stamens exserted. Ovary very shortly stalked. Nutlets c. 1 mm (immature).