Suffrutescent herb to 0.5 m tall; stems ascending, rooting at lower nodes, terete to subquadrangular near the apex, the brown puberulous hairs retrorse. Leaves elliptic, 6-11 cm long, 3.5-6 cm wide, apically and basally obtuse or rounded, glabrous above, the veins and the costa puberulous beneath, the cysto-liths dense and conspicuous on both the surfaces, the margins entire to crenulate; petioles short, 3-5 mm long, puberulous. Inflorescences in terminal, spicate panicles, the spikes to 12 cm long, the peduncles and the rachises puberulous, the internodes 10-15 mm long at the base of spike; bracts subulate, ca. 3 mm long, basally 1 mm wide, puberulous; bracteoles similar, but smaller. Flowters with 5-merous calyx, the segments slightly unequal, all linear subulate, posterior and lateral segments 6 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide basally, posterior segment 4 mm long, all the segments puberulous; corolla light purple, to 13 mm long, puberulous, the tube 1.5 mm wide at base, 2 mm wide at mouth, the lips to 7 mm long, the
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upper lip 3 mm wide at the base, apically minutely bibbed; lower lip 4.5 mm wide, 3-lobed, the lobes 2 mm long, the middle lobe 2 mm wide, the lateral lobes 1.5 mm wide, all apically rounded; anther cells superposed, the lower cell spurred, the filaments with minute glandular hairs on exserted portion. Capsules clavate, ca. 10 mm long, 3 mm wide, puberulous; seeds light brown, orbicular, flattened, 2.5 mm in diameter, glabrous.
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