Gardoquia
(named in honour of Don Diego Gardoqui, a Spanish financier of the eighteenth century, who promoted the publication of a Flora of Peru). SYN. Rizoa. ORD. Labiatae. A genus comprising about twenty-six species of greenhouse or half-hardy subshrubby evergreens, natives, for the most part, of Chili and Peru. Calyx tubular, thirteen-nerved; corolla with a long, almost straight tube, its upper lip notched, the lower in three lobes, the middle one of which is broadest. Leaves small, numerous, entire, rarely largely dentate. Gardoquias thrive in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Propagation is effected by cuttings, made of half-ripened shoots, and inserted in sand, under a bell glass. When rooted, the young plants should be potted off in small pots, and grown near the glass, in a greenhouse, and, as they advance in size, shifted into larger sized pots.
G. betonicoides (Betony-like) is Cedronella mexicana (which see). (B. M. 3860.)
G. breviflora (short-flowered). fl. second, in whorls; calyx a little coloured, with lanceolate-acute teeth, and with the throat naked inside. l. on short petioles, roundish-ovate, obtuse, with scarcely revolute margins; floral leaves similar to the rest. Peru. This species is scarcely distinct from the genus Micromeria, in consequence of the corolla hardly exceeding the calyx.
G. Gilliesii (Gillies'). fl., corolla scarlet, pubescent; calyx elongated, erect, with lanceolate, subulate, nearly equal teeth; throat naked inside. June. l. oblong-linear, or cuneated, obtuse, quite entire, narrowed at the base, green on both surfaces, flat; floral leaves similar to the other. Valparaiso, 1820. Plant procumbent. (B. R. 1812.)
G. multiflora (many-flowered). fl. in loose whorls, sub-secund; cymes pedunculate, scarcely dichotomous; corolla scarlet or purple, more than 1in. long. April. l. petiolate, ovate, bluntish, crenated a little, rounded at the base, green, pale beneath. Stems hard at the base, but scarcely woody. h. 1ft. Chili. (B. M. 3772.)