Annual. Stem 15-20 cm, branched or not, quadrangular, winged. Leaves 2-5 x 1.5-2 cm, cordate-ovate, acute, 3-7-nerved. Inflorescence paniculate. Flowers tetramerous. Calyx lobes 4-6 x 1-1.5 mm, narrowly ovate ovate, acute, ± free. Corolla lurid green or yellowish green with purple veine or dots, tube 0.5-1 mm, lobes 5-7 x 1.5-2.5 mm, ovate to elliptic-oblong, acute. Glands watch-pocket shaped with short, compound fimbriae, one lobe. Filaments 4-6 mm, anther oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary mm, style short, stout, stigmas sub-orbicular. Seeds polyhedral, more or less rounded, warted. 2n = 26.

Fl. & Fr. Per.: Aug. - Nov., 1200 - 2000 m.

Type: India W. Himalaya Mt. Emodi, Choor, Royle (holo. K!).

B-7 Hazara, Junjal hills, Oct. 1956, S.A. Khan, (PPFI), Kund (Seran). 8000 ft., 19.9.55, M. Arif Cheema (PPFI), Near Rawalkot on way to Bagh, 18.9.1987, Rahir Ali, M. Qaiser and M. Ajmal Khan 321 (KUH), 40 km from Rawalkot on way to Muzaffarabad 19.9.1987, ibid. 359 (KUH), Tanghili Reserve forest, Dadar-Mansehra, 12.10.82, Elahi Baksh s.n. (RAW), Oghi-Battal, Tribal Hazara, B.L. Bunt, B1352 (E), Oghi, Hazara, 13.9.90, Jehandar Shah 1333 (ICP), Swat: Malam Jabba, 16.10.1991, A. Ghafoor & Students 5343 (KUH), Murree, along Ghora Gali, Oct. 1934, R.R. Stewart 15383 (RAW), Pir Sohawa hills, 28.10.1983, Y. Nasir, R. Akhter & Khan 10611 (KUH, RAW), Danai, Lehtrar-Nar Road, 26.9.1980, Y. Nasir & Nasir 9358 (RAW).

Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Nepal.