An erect or prostrate to decumbent, divaricately branched annual herb up to 50 cm long, branches obtusely or acutely 4-angled. Leaves oblong, elliptical to narrowly elliptical, up to 8 cm long. Flowers in 3-7-flowered cymes, corolla with geniculate lobes, white or occasionally pale blue. Fruit turbinate-obovoid. Seeds transversely ellipsoid.
Used to treat fever gastric irritation and nervous depression, and applied to treat snake bites (plant); applied to wounds (pounded plant); given internally in diarrhea and dysentery (decoction of plant).
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