Mountain Peristrophe is a hairless erect herb, growing to 1 m tall. Leaf stalks are 1.5-4.5 cm, leaf blade narrowly oblong, lanceolate, or rarely ovate, 4-9 X 3-5 cm, thinly papery to nearly membranous. Flowers occur in cymes at the end of branches or in leaf axils. The stalk carrying the cyme is 1.5-1.7 cm. Bracts many, broadly ovate to linear lanceolate, 1-1.8 X 0.2-1 cm, base rounded to truncate, apex obtuse and often apiculate. Two-lipped flowers are rose to pink, 4.5-6 cm - upper lip oblong, 3-lobed; lower lip elliptic, tip not sharp. Filaments are velvel hairy. Capsule to 2 cm, hairless, shining. Seeds nearly circular, to 3 mm. Mountain Peristrophe is commonly seen in the hill stations in north India. Flowering: November.