Paraphlomis javanica Prain

Undershrub, 0.5-1.8 m. Stem obtusely 4-angled, deeply furrowed, minutely hirsute. Leaves thin-membranaceous, elliptic, oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 15-30 by 6-12 cm, acuminate or caudate, base cuneate or truncate or rounded, entire; margin elsewhere irregularly crenate-serrate, glabrous or with minute scattered hairs on the nerves on both surfaces; petiole 4-10 cm, puberulent. Flowers in small distant verticillasters, axillary. Bracteoles filiform, short-hairy. Calyx turbinate, 0.8-1.2 cm long (in fruit about the same length, with the teeth often broken off), white or suffused with red at apex, tube slightly curved, hispid below; teeth 5, lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, triangular at base, membranaceous. Corolla light yellow or white, with pink or dark purple centre, 2-2.5 cm long, tube annulate within; both lips pubescent outside, upper lip narrow, rounded at apex; lower lip 3-lobed, midlobe oblong, lateral lobes lanceolate. Style branches subequal. Nutlets whitish, brown to black, obovoid, 6 by 3-3.5 mm, acute and triquetrous below, rounded above.

Open and humid places in rainforest, from the lowland to c. 1800 m, mostly above 600 m. Fl. Jan.-Dec.