x CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS. 
CI. VERBENACEH, Herbs, shrubs, or trees, Leaves usually opposite, simple or 
digitate. Ovary entire or slightly lobed, 2—4 celled or rarely 8-celled (Duranta) ; 
style terminal. Fruit drupaceous, containing 2-4 (rarely 1) bony pyrenes, or dry 
and separating into nucules, or very rarely dehiscing. Radicle inferior. 
CII. Lasrat®. Herbs, more rarely shrubs. Leaves almost always opposite and 
simple. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style produced from between the lobes. Fruit of 
4 nucules. Radicle inferior. 
Anomalous Order. 
CII], PLANTAGINE®. Scapigerous herbs. Leaves usually radical. Flowers 
spicate, small, usually hermaphrodite, Corolla 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Capsule cir- 
cumscissile or indehiscent ; 1- or more-seeded. 
