252 104. vERBENACE X. 
1. Verbena officinalis, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 20; DC. Prodr. 
xi. p. 547; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 268; Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. 
p. 112, et FI. Shangh. p. 48; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
lv. p. 565 ; Maxim. in Mél. Biol. xii. p. 503. 
Verbena, sp. n.?, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 208. 
CHINA: common from the Corea southward (Millett! Cham- 
pion! Wilford! Playfair! A. Henry! and others). Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Very widely spread in temperate and subtropical regions. 
1. Callicarpa brevipes, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5"* série, v. 
p. 233, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 116 (sphalmate breviceps) ; 
Maxim in Mél. Biol. xii. p. 509. 
Callicarpa longifolia, var. brevipes, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 270. 
Callicarpa longifolia, Hook. Exot. Fl. ii. t. 133, et Bot. Reg. t. 864; 
aec Lam. 
Hoxexoxa (Champion! Wright! Wilford! Hance!). Mus. 
Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
2. Callicarpa cana, Linn. Mant. p. 198; DC. Prodr. xi. 
p. 643; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 568. 
Callicarpa americana, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 70, non Linn. 
HarwaN: various localities (4. Henry!) Herb. Kew. 
Malay peninsula and archipelago to the Philippine Islands 
and North Australia. 
3. Callicarpa formosana, Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 358; 
Maxim. in Mél. Biol. xii. p. 506. 
Formosa: Tamsui and various other localities (Wilford! 
Oldham! Swinhoe! Watters! Playfair! A. Henry!) Mus. 
Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Philippine Islands. 
There is no obvious character to separate this from C. longi- 
folia, Lam., and, indeed, with a very large series of specimens 
we have quite failed to make a satisfactory sorting into C. formo- 
sana, Rolfe, C. japonica, Thunb., C. longifolia, Lam., and 
C. purpurea, Juss. The specimens present almost every grada- 
tion, from small-leaved and small-flowered glabrous and hairy 
forms to large-leaved and large- or small-flowered glabrous or 
hairy forms. But without carefully studying them all we 
