Lepechinia
(named after John Lepechin, a Russian botanist, who died in 1802). ORD. Labiatae. A genus comprising three species of half-hardy Mexican herbs. Corolla yellowish or whitish; tube shorter than the calyx, naked within; limb shortly bilabiate; whorls six to ten-flowered, in dense terminal crowded spikes, or the lower ones, or sometimes all, scattered. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. Leaves rugosely dentate. The undermentioned species requires a loamy soil. Propagated by divisions of the plant in spring; or by cuttings of young shoots, placed under a hand glass, at the same season. L. spicata (spiked). fl. yellow, small; whorls crowded into terminal oblong or sub-globose spikes, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. Summer. l. nearly sessile, 2in. to 6in. long, ovate, obtuse, crenulated, wrinkled. Stem erect. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Mexico, 1800. (B. R. 1292.)