Shrub to 1.8 m, pleasantly aromatic. Stems, including older woody parts, densely greyish tomentose with a covering of adpressed and some spreading eglandular hairs. Leaves 2-4 x 0.7-3 cm, ovate, crenate to almost lobed, truncate or broadly cuneate, acute, with few scattered hairs on adaxial side, below with numerous eglandular spreading hairs mainly on veins and densely gland-dotted; petiole to 8 mm. Verticillasters 4-12-flowered, distant, on very short peduncles. Bracts linear-subulate, c. 3.5 mm. Pedicels 0.5 mm. Calyx c. 15 mm with adpressed-spreading eglandular hairs mainly on veins and sessile oil globules; tube c. 6-7 mm; lobes subequal, elegant, oblong-elliptic narrowed at base, obtusely acuminate, reticulately veined, c. 7 x 2 mm, ± rigid; calyx not or scarcely enlarging in fruit. Corolla white or pink, c. 13 mm; tube slender straight, c. 9 mm, annulate; upper lip entire, pilose-villous; lower lip 3-lobed, median slightly larger. Nutlets (scarcely mature) c. 3.5 x 2 mm, apically ± truncate and papillose.