Stachys caffra E.Mey. ex Benth.

Erect soft freely branched shrub, 1-3 m tall; stems slender, more or less stellate-tomentulose, occasionally glabrescent with age. Leaves petiolate; blade thin-textured, lanceolate, 30-90 x 10-30 mm, upper surface thinly hispidulous, lower surface paler and stellate-tomentose, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin minutely serrulate except in the lower part; petiole 5-10 mm long. Inflorescence terminating the branchlets, of several spaced verticils, denser towards the apex; verticils 4-10-flowered, cymes occasionally pedunculate; bracts similar to the leaves, becoming gradually smaller upwards. Calyx stellate-tomentulose, 4-5 mm long. Corolla white, cream or greenish yellow; tube 5-6 mm long, slightly curved; upper lip 2.5-3 mm long; lower lip 5 mm long.