Compilation
Dyschoriste nagchana

Perennial herb with weakly developed rootstock, basal part of stems creeping and rooting, apical part decumbent to ascending or erect; stems up to 65 cm long, glabrous to sparsely puberulous (densest on edges). Leaves ovate to elliptic (rarely narrowly or broadly so), largest 2–8(–10)≈0.7–2.6 cm, apex subacute to broadly rounded (rarely retuse), glabrous (rarely with a few puberulent hairs along midrib) beneath, with puberulous midrib above (very rarely with scattered capitate glands), margin minutely puberulent-ciliate or glabrous. Flowers in condensed axillary cymes with up to 12 flowers or some solitary, in lush specimens sometimes 2 clusters per axil; peduncle and branches up to 1 mm long; outer bracts up to 1.5(–2.5) cm long; inner bracts and bracteoles filiform or linear, up to 5 mm long. Calyx 4–8(–9 in fruit) mm long, glabrous (rarely with a few hairs along veins); teeth usually distinctly ciliate, 3–5 mm long, shorter than, same length or longer than tube. Corolla with almost symmetrical limb, white or pale mauve, mauve, purple or lilac, tube usually paler, puberulent, 6–9(–12) mm long of which the linear tube 2–3(–4) mm, the throat 2–3(–5) mm and the limb 2–3 mm; lobes oblong, recurved. One pair of stamens sometimes reduced to staminodes; free part of filaments 1–2(–3) mm long, hairy at base, glabrous upwards; anthers ± 1 mm long, spurs less tham 1/4 mm long. Capsule 7–10 mm long. Seed 2–3 mm long. Fig. 28, 11, p. 185.