Anisochilus

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Anisochilus Gardening

Anisochilus is a rather showy biennial or perennial herbs or sub shrubs (ord, Labiatse), requiring stove treatment. The flowers are small, but the false whorls are collected in oblong or cylindrical spikes.

Propagated by seeds; or more generally by cuttings of half-ripened wood in sandy soil in pots, under a ham (light or similar protection. Soil, turfy, liberal loam, and one-third of peat, with sand.

Information about Anisochilus

Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves succulent, petiolate or subsessile, margin dentate. Verticillasters dense, overlapping, in ovoid-oblong or cylindric terminal spikes. Calyx ovoid, nearly straight, lower half dilated in fruit, mouth oblique; teeth small or obscure, posterior tooth large, margin entire, reflexed or incurved and closing mouth in fruit. Corolla 2-lipped; tube slender, exserted, recurved at middle, dilated at throat; upper lip obtuse, 3- or 4-lobed; lower lip entire, elongated, incurved. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, declinate; filaments free, edentate; anthers ovoid, cells 2. Style longer than stamens, apex subequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate. Nutlets flattened, ovoid, smooth, glandular.

About 20 species: Africa, Asia; one native and another cultivated in China.

In Chinese: 排香草属 pai cao xiang shu