Plectranthus saccatus Benth.

Erect to spreading soft shrub 0.5-1.2 m tall, freely branched; stems semi-succulent to somewhat woody, purple-tinged, glandular-puberulous. Leaves petiolate; blade herbaceous to semi-succulent, drying thin-textured, broadly ovate to ovate-deltoid, 20-70 x 15-50 mm, sub-glabrous to glandular-puberulous, under-surface with colourless gland-dots, apex acute, base truncate to obtuse or shortly cuneate, margin dentate with few, fairly large teeth; petiole 15-50 mm long. Inflorescence simple or occasionally branched near the base, racemes 50-120 mm long with relatively few but large flowers; flowers in sessile 1-3-flowered cymes forming 2-6-flowered verticils 10-20 mm apart. Calyx up to 8 mm long in fruiting stage, subglabrous to puberulous. Corolla mauve to pale blue or rarely white, varying in length (see vars.) from 13-30 mm; tube deflexed, enlarged and markedly saccate at the base, parallel-sided or narrowing slightly towards the throat; upper lip 10-16 mm long; lower lip boat-shaped, 5-12 mm long, horizontal or deflexed. Stamens free, 5-10 mm long.