Perilla frutescens

Perilla frutescens (L.) Britton, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 277 1894. (Syn: Ocimum frutescens L.; Melissa cretica Lour.; Melissa maxima Ard.; Mentha perilloides Lam.; Perilla albiflora Odash.; Perilla avium Dunn; Perilla frutescens var. auriculatodentata C.Y.Wu & S.J.Hsuan ex H.W.Li; Perilla frutescens f. crispidiscolor Makino; Perilla frutescens var. laviniata W.Mill. & L.H.Bailey; Perilla frutescens var. purpurascens (Hayata) H.W.Li; Perilla ocymoides L.; Perilla ocymoides f. discolor Makino; Perilla ocymoides var. japonica Hassk.; Perilla ocymoides var. purpurascens Hayata; Perilla ocymoides f. purpurea Makino; Perilla ocymoides f. viridicrispa Makino; Perilla ocymoides f. viridis Makino; Perilla shimadae Kudô; Perilla urticifolia Salisb.);

Ao Shiso, Beefsteak plant, Ji Soo, Perilla, Purple Perilla, Shiso, Wild basil, Wild red basil, Chinese basil, Purple mint, Rattlesnake weed, Summer coleus;

As per efi thread:

Erect herb with densely villous stems; leaves broadly ovate, up to 12 c m long, pilose above, villous beneath, margin coarsely serrate; inflorescence and pedicels densely; flowers white, calyx up to 11 mm long in fruit, villous at base; nutlets gray-brown.

Distribution: Himalaya 600-1800 mt Burma China Japan

Frequently cultivated near houses and often escape.

15102011GS2 a tall herb from Dakpathar for ID: A tall herb up to 2 m tall covered with long spreading woolly hairs, 4-angled; leaves opposite up to 30 cm long, broadly ovate to elliptic, petiole as long as blade, slightly cordate at base. flowers white 7-10 mm long, sessile in slender terminal spikes, inflorescence covered with dense spreading hairs, flowers in axils of broadly ovate large bracts, almost equalling flowers.

Photographed from near Dakpathar on way to Chakrata on September 16, 2011

Help in ID solicited.

Here are mine pics of the same plant same area

Identified as Perilla frutescens as per link