Perilomia
(from peri, around, and loma, a fringe; alluding to the membranous-winged nutlets). ORD. Labiatae. A genus comprising about eight species of greenhouse or half-hardy, loosely or densely branched, sometimes of South America, extending from Chili or Bolivia to Mexico. Flowers scarlet; calyx campanulate, slightly gibbous at back, bilabiate, with short, entire lips; corolla frequently pubescent or villous, with an exserted, incurved tube, and a short, bilabiate limb; whorls two-flowered, secund, axillary, or the uppermost ones sub-racemose. Nutlets erect, triquetrous or compressed at back. leaves dentate; floral ones conformed, or the upper-most ones reduced to bracts. The undermentioned species--the only the introduced--is a very pretty half-hardy evergreen shrub, thriving best in a sandy-peat soil. It may be propagated, in April, by cuttings of young shoots, interested in sand, under a glass.
P. soutellaroides (skull-cap-like). A. over 1/2 in. long, forming an elongated raceme, 6in. to 12in. long. August. l, ovate, crenated, roundly truncate at the base, 1/2 in. to 1 1/2 in. long. h. 3ft. Peru 1829. (B. R. 1394, under name of P. ocimoides.)