金平香草 jin ping xiang cao

Herbs perennial, to 60 cm tall. Stems erect, terete, subfleshy, branched in upper part, minutely glandular when young. Lower leaves scalelike. Upper leaves alternate, ± crowded toward apex of stem; petiole 2.5--7.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade oblong, 10--18 X 3.5--6 cm, membranous when dry, abaxially glabrescent, adaxially ± bristly to glabrate, base cuneate, apex short acuminate; veins 10--13 pairs, prominent. Racemes axillary, 4- or 5-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 cm, quadrangular; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 1--1.3 cm, subulate, adnate to pedicel at base. Pedicel 1--1.5 cm, subangular, apex thickened. Calyx lobes ovate, 9--10 X ca. 3 mm, apex acuminate to subulate; veins 7--9. Corolla pink; tube 2--2.5 mm; lobes oblong, 9.5--10 X 6--7 mm, apex rounded. Filaments connate basally into a ca. 1 mm high ring, free parts very short; anthers ca. 4.5 mm, basifixed, opening by apical pores. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 6 mm. Capsule unknown. Fl. Apr.

* Shaded areas near water. SE Yunnan (Jinping Xian).