Stems several, erect, 0.25-0.3 m tall arising annually from a perennial woody rootstock; stems sparingly branched, villous. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, 20-25 x 14-18 mm, upper surface brownish and appressed hispid, under-surface paler, hispid to villous, apex and base obtuse to rounded, margin with a few minute teeth above the middle; petiole 2-4 mm long. Inflorescence simple, 100-140 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered; bracts ovate, 4-5 x 2-2.5 mm. Calyx 11-12 mm long at maturity, glandular-villous. Corolla 14 mm long; tube 10 mm long, widening to 4-5 mm; lower lip 4 mm long, eventually deflexed. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached below the middle of the tube, filaments puberulous near the base; lower pair united to near the apex.
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