Botanical name: Rydingia limbata    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Otostegia limbata, Ballota limbata

Himalayan Vase-Flower is small shrub up to 2 ft tall, much branched. Flowers are borne in 6-10-flowered whorls, all remote. Bracts are several, hard-spiny, about 1 cm long, pale-colored, spreading-erect. Sepal-cup is funnel-shaped, 10-nerved; limb dilated, membranous, margin 4-toothed. Flowers are yellow or orange-yellow, 1.5-2 cm long. Flower-tube is about 7 mm, as long as sepal-tube, upper lip erect, concave, crown hairy; lower spreading, 3-parted, midlobe broad. Stamens are 4, rising up. Style is almost equally 2-parted. Stems are palish yellow or brown, four-edged on younger shoots, velvet-hairy with short spreading eglandular hairs. Leaves are clustered, oblong-inverted-lanceshaped, entire, 1-2 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, finely glandular-dotted and with short adpressed hairs, blunt at tip, narrowed at base, spread over stem and merging into the bracts. Spines are about 1 cm long, in axils. Himalayan Vase-Flower is found in Pakistan to Western Himalaya. Flowering: April-May.
Medicinal uses: Himalayan Vase-Flower is consumed for the treatment of children's gum problems, for remedial purpose in case of ophthalmia in man and also used for curing the wounds in beast and man. Locally fresh leaves of the plant are crushed and then grounded, after that water is mixed to make the extract which is also used for the cure of eye infections.

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