Suffruticose aromatic perennials (in ours). Stems numerous from a woody rootstock, with short eglandular simple hairs, slender, leafy. Leaves small, sessile, ovate, entire, gland-dotted beneath, marginal vein thickened. Inflorescence of shortly pedunculate cymes in upper leaf arils forming elongated spikes. Calyx not or scarcely bilabiate, 13 (-15)-ribbed; teeth 5, rather unequal; tube straight, with a bearded throat. Corolla white to purplish, bilabiate, small; upper lip straight, emarginate, glabrous or pilose; lower lip 3-lobed with a larger median emarginate lobe; tube narrow, widening above, not annulate within. Stamens 4, included under corolla upper lip, didynamous; thecae bilocular, spreading, glabrous. Stylar branches 2, unequal. Nutlets oblong, scarcely trigonous, apically rounded, mucilaginous on wetting (in ours).