Home
Herb or undershrub. Flowers small, in many-flowered verticillasters condensed in terminal and axillary spikes. Calyx tubular, 10-nerved, 5-toothed, teeth nearly equal, throat naked within. Corolla shortly exserted; tube annulate within, gibbous in front above the annulus; limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, slightly concave, retuse at the tip, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, midlobe broader than lateral ones. Stamens,in 2 pairs, the lower pair slightly longer; anthers ellipsoid, 2-celled in bud, later onfluent and 1-celled; filaments puberulous. Disk uniform. Style shortly 2-fid, upper branch very short. Nutlets ovoid, subtriq uetrous, papillose-glandular; scar of contact surface very large, lateral.
