Botanical name: Leucas chinensis    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Blandina chinensis, Phlomis chinensis

Chinese Slitwort is straggling bushy under shrub, up to 50 cm tall, covered with densely woolly hairs, branched at base. Leaves thick or leathery, rarely membranous, broadly ovate to nearly round, 3.5 x 1.8 cm, softly velvet-hairy or woolly, base flat, somewhat heart-shaped or rounded, margin rounded toothed, tip pointed or blunt; leaf-stalk 1-3 cm, slender often the upper ones stalkless, woolly. Flowers are borne in whorls in leaf-axils, lax, 3-8-flowered, bracts bristly, very minute, sepal-cup distinctly stalked, 1-1.5 cm long, funnel-shaped; tube slightly ribbed, densely soft white-hairy without, mouth flat, densely hairy within, teeth broadly triangular, spreading; lower lip of flower longer than the upper. Nutlets gray-brown, 1.5 mm long, oblong, bluntly flat at top. Chinese Slitwort is native to China to Hainan, S. Japan to Philippines and the Western Ghats.

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