MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS (2+1)

Description of the plant

The plant is a hardy, dense, evergreen shrub, growing up to 1 m in height with an erect stem divided into numerous long, slender branches bearing many sessile, opposite leaves which are smooth and green, woody, whitish and glandular beneath. The leaves are 2 to 4 cm long and cylindrical, leathery and green on top, white and hairy below and sticky to touch. The flowers are situated in little clusters towards the end of the branches. The calyx is two-lipped, the upper one with a single broad oval lobe, the lower one with two segmented triangular lobes. The corolla is also two-lipped with two violet stamens and a long style projecting from it. The fruit is an oval, four-sectioned cremocarp.