Scutellaria discolor var. discolor Zoll. & Moritzi

Small herbs, usually 20-50(-100) cm. Stem hirsute, rarely branched. Leaves membranaceous, broadly elliptic to rounded, rarely ovate, 4-6(-11) by 2.5-5(-10) cm, sometimes smaller, obtuse or rounded, base often rounded to cordate, margin coarsely crenate, glabrescent or sparsely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 1-2 (or more) cm, hirsute. Flowers in simple terminal raceme-like inflorescences 10-15 cm long; 3 (sometimes 2 or 4) flowers subverticillately arranged in verticillasters not confined to one plane. Bracts linear, 1-3 mm. Pedicels 2-4 mm, pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 2-2.5 mm long, in fruit 4-5 mm, hirsute. Corolla trumpet-shaped, blue, pale-blue, or purple-violet, 10—12 mm long. Nutlets ellipsoid, 1.2 by 0.7 mm, black, echinate.

Grassland along streams, shady and moist places in rainforest, trails in forest, moist rocks in ravines, in Sumbawa in lowland Dipterocarp forest, in the Vogelkop in oak forest, in Timor on limestone in Podocarpus forest; from the lowland up to c. 2400 m, at low altitude on several small islands but also on the larger islands. Fl. Jan.-Dec.

Uses. According to HEYNE ( HEYNE Nutt. Pl. 1927 1326 ) used against pains in the loins.