Annual. Stem 15-50 cm, simple or branched, quadrangular, finely winged or not. Leaves 10-25 x 4-8 mm, narrowly ovate to obovate or ovate, acute or obtuse. Inflorescence paniculate, lax. Flowers pentamerous. Calyx lobes 4-8 x 1-2 mm, narrowly ovate to obovate-oblong or linear, acute, ± free. Corolla bluish white to greenish white, tube 1-1.5 mm, lobes 4-8 x 1.5-2.5 mm, ovate, acute. Glands two per lobe, oblong, fimbriate. Filaments 3-4 mm, filiform, anther ovate, obtuse. Ovary 5-6 mm, oblong stigmas suborbicular, sessile. Capsule 6-10 mm. Seeds rounded, warted.

Fl. and Fr. Per.: Aug. - Dec.

Type: India, Simla, Tungru, 6000 - 8000 ft., Edgeworth 89 (Holo. K!).

A-7 Gilgit, Chalt, R.R. Stewart 26513 (E), near Karimabad, 22.7.1990, M. Qaiser, S. Omer & S.Z. Husain 8454 (KUH), Gilgit, Naltar, 3.9.1990, Jehandar Shah 898 (ICP), Gilgit, Minapin village, 4.9.1990, Jehandar Shah 899 (ICP), Gupis on way to Gahkuch, 21.7.1990, M. Qaiser, S. Omer & S. Z. Husain 8441 (KUH), B-7 Murree, 13.9.1989, T. Ali & S. N. Ahsan 1971 (KUH),

Distribution: Pakistan, India, Nepal.