Scutellaria indica L.

Small herb, usually prostrate, 20-30 cm, often not branched. Stem and branches acutely 4-angular, glabrescent or strigose. Leaves chartaceous, mostly radical, broadly ovate to rounded or reniform, 1.5—2(—3) by 1.5-2 cm, base usually cordate, appressed hirsute on both surfaces, margin crenate; petiole 0 5-1.5 cm, hirsute and scabrid. Flowers in a terminal, raceme-like inflorescence, solitary or occasionally several; flowers 2 in a verticillaster, opposite. Pedicels nearly perpendicular to the rachis. Bracts rounded to ovate, 2-3 mm long, villose. Calyx 1.5 mm long, in fruit 3-4 mm, glandular-hairy. Corolla pale to deep purple, 12-14 cm long, puberulent. Nutlets protuberant, 1 by 0.6 mm.

On cliffs and boulders along streams, grassy open plain, along tracks in secondary forest, rather rare in Malesia, from low altitude to 2300 m. Fl. Jan.-Dec.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.