VERBENACE.E. 499 



pyrente 1-seeded. — Leaves simple: down stellate; glands minute, sessile, shining ; cymes 

 dichotomous, axillary : flowers small, often polygamous. 



33. C. ferruginea, Sio. Shrubby ; branches tomentose ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 acuminate, tapering into the petiole, serrate, densely glandular beneath, usually almost 

 glabrate : scurfy down persistent on the midrib (or on all veins) ; cymes many-flowered, as 

 long as or exceeding the petiole ; calyx glabrescent, glandular, 4-mucrouate-truucate, half 

 as long as tbe bluish-white corolla; drupe subglobose, red. — 4'-6' high; leaves 6"— 3", 

 calyx 1'" long; drupes 2"' diam. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mae/., Pd., Hartw., M'Nab, in moun- 

 tain-woods, Port ltoyal ; [Cuba !]. 



34. O. reticulata, Sio. Shrubby ; branches white-tomentose ; leaves elliptical or 

 oblong, bluntish, rounded at the base, subentire, powdery or glabrate and rugose above, 

 white-tomentose beneath with the network of veins prominent ; cymes many-flowered, half 

 as long or as long as the leaves ; calyx white-tomentose, with bluntish teeth, half as long 

 as the powdery corolla, enlarged and splitting around the globose, powdery drupe. — Leaves 

 20"'-12"', calyx 1'" long ; drupes \\ m diam.— Hab. Jamaica, Wright; [Cuba!]. 



12. ,EGIPHILA, Jacq. 



Floroers mostly diceciously polygamous. Calyx shortly dentate or lobed or truncate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped or infundibular, subequal : tube slender, usually exserted : lobes 4(-5). 

 Stamens 4(-5), equal, in <J exserted. Stigma bifid : lobes hair-shaped or linear, pointed, 

 in ? exserted. l)rupe at length 4-pyrenous, or 3-1-pyrenous by abortion : pyrenre 1- 

 secded. — Woody plants ; leaves simple, subentire, glandular beneath .- petiole jointed near 

 the base ; cymes trichotomous or contracted, axillary or paniculate-terminal. 



* Cymes few-Jloivered, all axillary. 



35. A. trifida, Sw. Branches cylindrical, glabrate ; leaves leathery, elliptical-lan- 

 ceolate, point letcd, shining-glabrous, tapering into the short petiole ; cymes axillary, con- 

 tracted, usually %-flowered: peduncle as long as or twice as long as the petiole ; calyx 

 leathery, clavate-cylindrical, much longer than the pedicel, 4-dcntate, at length splitting; 

 corolla whitish: lobes lanceolate; drupe ovoid-oblong, included by the eupulate, thickened 

 calyx.— A shrub ; leaves 2|"-4", calyx 2'", in fruit 4"', corolla-tube 4'", lobes 2'" long.— 

 Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., Pd., in the mountains of Port Royal. 



36. A. fcetida, Sw. Branches cylindrical, densely pilose and glandular ; leaves char- 

 taceous, oblong, bluntish, glabrescent, pilose on the midrib beneath, rounded at the shortly 

 petioled base ; cymes reduced into a subsessile, S-floteered glomerule, axillary or opposite 

 along subaphyllous branchlets ; calyx hispid, membranaceous, obconical-campanulate, trun- 

 cate-4-mucronate, much shorter than and lax around the corolla-tube ; corolla yellowish : 

 lobes lanceolate ; drupe ovoid-oblong, twice as long as the eupulate, thickened calyx. — A 

 slender or low shrub with narcotic smell : all our specimens are $ ; leaves 2"-4", calyx 1 J'", 

 filiform corolla-tube 6"'-8"', lobes 3'", red drupe 4'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, At., Pd., List., 

 March, in stony mountains, S. Anns. 



** Cymes many-flowered, axillary, or all opposite in the panicle. 



37. A. arborescens, V. Branches Agonal, sericeous ; leaves chartaceous, obovate- 

 oblong, pointed, glabrescent above, appressed-puberulous beneath, long- tapering into the 

 petiole ; cymes many-flowered, contracted-corymbose, axillary, shortly peduncled or sub- 

 sessile, or uppermost opposite in a pyramidal panicle ; calyx sericeous, clavale-infundibular, 

 4-dentate, upper part lax around the corolla-tube ; corolla whitish : lobes lanceolate ; drupe 

 "obovate, iucluded by the calyx." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 259. f. 6: the $ flower. Aubl. 

 t. 24. — Manabea, Aubl. Calliearpa integrifolia, Jacq. — A low tree, about 12' high; leaves 

 12"-4" long, distantly archveined beneath ; calyx 3'"-4'", corolla-tube 4"'-6'", lobes 2"'-l£"' 

 long; drupe " size of a pea, green, yellow at the base." — Hab. Trinidad !, Locfch., Cr., uni- 

 versal on abandoned land ; [Venezuela, Guiana!, equat. Brazil !, Peru !]. 



*** Cymes many-flowered, trichotomous, ultimate terminal. 



38. A. lsevis, W. Branches subcyliudrical, glabrate; leaves chartaceous, elliptical- 



