Plants up to 1 m tall. Roots elongated, fusiform. Stem glabrous to slightly hispid. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, glabrous to pubescent, margin crenate to slightly serrate; lower leaves petiolate, upper sessile to subsessile. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx segments filiform to linear, each c. 5 mm long. Corolla blue, segments linear to lanceolate, united at the base, 5-6 mm long. Filaments short, pubescent; anthers oblong, surrounding the style. Style with 2 stigmas. Fruit a globose capsule with persistent calyx segments. Seed 1.5 mm long, dark brown, oblong, smooth.

Fl. Per.: May August.

Type: Himalayas from Jamu, T. Thomson, 6-8000', (K).

Distribution: Afghanistan, Himalayas in India and Pakistan.

A plant of northern hilly areas in Pakistan and Kashmir.