VERBENACE A E. 
VERBENACEAE Juss. Ann. Mus. VII. p. 63. R. Br. Endl. Gen. p. 632. Ordo 137. Bentham in 
Taylor Annals of Nat. Hist. II. p. 446. et in Hook. Journ. of Bot. II. p. 51. Lindl. Veget. 
Kingd. p. 663. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. p. 522. — Үттісев Juss. Gen. p. 106 (excl. sect. 3. ). 
DICOTYLEDONEAE S. ORTHOINES SYMPETALANTHAE HYPOGYNAE, HERMAPHRODITAE Y. RARO 
POLYGAMO-DIOICAE. COROLLA REGULARIS AUT BILABIATA, ANDROECEO COMPLETO AUT INCOMPLETO 
DIDYNAMO. PisTILLUM E CARPIDIIS 2 VEL 4, 2 — 8-LOCULARE, OVULIS SOLITARIIS, RARO GEMINIS, 
ANATROPIS VEL AMPHITROPIS; STYLO UNICO, TERMINALI. FRUCTUS CAPSULARIS AUT, DRUPACEUS, 
PYRENIS 2— 4, 1 — 2- LocULARIBUS. SEMINA ERECTA EXALBUMINOSA, EMBRYONE RECTO » COTYLE- 
DONIBUS CRASSIS SIBI APPLICATIS, ROSTELLO BREVI INFERO, — HERBAL, FRUTICES, RARO ARBO- 
RES, FOLIIS EXSTIPULATIS OPPOSITIS VERTICILLATISQUE RARO ALTERNIS, SIMPLICIBUS AUT 
DIGITATIS. INFLORESCENTIA INDEFINITA V. DEFINITA. Marr. Mss. 
Frores hermaphroditi, rarius polygamo - dioici, 4 — 5-meri, regulares vel subregulares 
aut bilabiati. Carvx liber, gamophyllus, persistens, post anthesin magis minusve auctus fru- 
ctumque subtendens immoque velans. CororLa hypogyna, decidua, gamopetala, tubulosa; limbo 
inaequali subsecundo, subbilabiato vel bilabiato, rarius vere aequali; laciniis aestivatione im- 
bricatis: infima (antica) intima lateralibusque tecta, supremis (posticis) extimis. STAMINA ple- 
rumque 4 didynama vel 5, rarius (in generibus asiaticis) indefinita, omnia fertilia vel supe- 
riora ananthera aut rudimentaria: FILAMENTA tubo corollae insería; ANTHERAE biloculares, locu- 
lis rima longitudinali rariusve poro apicali dehiscentibus, contiguis parallelis » Vel rarissime su- 
perpositis; connectivum antherarum superiorum interdum cristato- vel clavato-appendiculatum ; . 
POLLEN nunc globoso-tetraédrum nunc ellipsoideum, longitudinaliter plicatum aut in angulis aut 
in aequatore porosum. GERMEN liberum, integrum, saepius gynophoro annuliformi insidens, e 
carpidiis vel duobus vel quatuor conflatum, carpidiorum marginibus nunc dissepimenta prima- 
ria praebentibus 2 — 4-loculare, nunc iisdem in dissepimenta cavitatem bipartientia introflexis 
4 — 8-loculare. Ovura in loculis plerumque solitaria, rarissime gemina; in Verbeneis ge- 
nuinis e basi loculi erecta anatropa; in reliquis tribubus e spermophoro parietali in angulo cen- 
trali loculi adscendente subpendula, amphitropa, micropyle infera. STYLUS terminalis, sim- 
plex; sricMA aut indivisum capitatum, aut obliquum declive, aut bifidum vel crure altero 
dentiformi altero eoque stigmatoso complanato vel utroque crure acuto. FRUCTUS aut CAPSU- 
LARIS , 2 — 4- (vel rarius 6-) coccus: coccis maturitate secedentibus et a receptaculo vel disci- 
formi basilari vel rarius unilaterali oblique deciduis, clausis monospermis; aut drupaceus: sar- 
cocarpio v. succoso v. venoso v. spongioso, pyrenis 2— 4 connatis v. distinctis l — 2-loculari- 
bus, putamine coriaceo, lignoso v. osseo, laevi v. rugoso; aut drupaceo-capsularis coriaceus 
indehiscens; aut (in generibus nonnullis asiaticis) capsulam denique siccam 4-valvem septici- 
dam itemque simul loculicidam exhibens. Semina erecta, exalbuminosa; TESTA membranacea ; 
EMBRYONE recto, COTYLEDONIBUS crassis oleosis sibimet applicatis, germinatione foliaceis, no- 
STELLO brevi infero. 
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