Stachys lamarckii Benth.

Shrub 0.2-1 m tall; branches ascending, white woolly stellate-tomentose on the younger parts, glabrescent and brownish purple with age. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade rugose, fairly thick-textured, elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 20-50 x 6-20 mm, upper surface subglabrous or thinly to fairly densely stellate-tomentose, more dense and somewhat woolly beneath, apex obtuse to rounded, base obtuse to cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescence of few to several 6-many-flowered verticils, denser towards the apex. Calyx very densely white to creamy woolly-tomentose, 8-11 mm long. Corolla yellow; tube 6-7 mm long; upper lip ascending, 3 mm long; lower lip horizontal, 6 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.