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VERBENA* Melindres. 



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Scarlet Buenos Ay res Verbena. 



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DID YN AMI A ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat, ord, Verbenacex. 

 VERBENA, — Suprd, vol, A.foL 294. 



V. Melindres; caule procumbente. piloso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis gross& 

 serratis calycibusque hispidis, floribus corymbosis, laciniis coroUse om- 

 nibus emarginatis. 

 V. Melindres. Gillies MSS. 



Herba diffusa, perennis? caulihus teretibus,ascendentibus, pilosis. . Folia 

 opposita, oblongo-lanceolaia, gross^ serrata^ in petiole brevi attenuata, 

 utrinque prcEsertim ad venas kispida, Flores in spied corymbosd dispositi, 

 pedunculati. Bractese fiispidce, subulatce, calyce breviores. Calyx kis" 

 pidus. Corolla calyce longior, pulckr^ coccinea ; laciniis planis, oblongis, 

 emarginatis, inferiore majore. 



This and a number of similar undescribed Chilian 

 and Buenos Ayrean species of Verbena, have long been 

 familiar to us in the form of dried specimens ; but we 

 have never before had an opportunity of seeing it alive. 

 The plant from which the accompanying drawing was 

 made was communicated on the 20th of June last by 

 Mr. Harrison, Gardener to the Earl of Egremont, in whose 

 Garden at Petworth it then flowered in great beauty for 

 the first time. It is a native of the plains of the Pampas 

 of Buenos Ayres, where we learn from our friend Dr. Gillies 

 it is very common: it is also found in the provinces of 

 Cordova and San Luis. 



* Said by De Theis to be an alteration o( ferfaen, the Celtic name of 

 the plant. Melindres is the vernacular appellation of this species in the 

 province of Buenos Ayres. 



