Stachytarpheta.] cxi. VERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 565 
: 964. S. villosa, Turcz.in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863,11. 197. Verbena 
indica, Linn.; Wall. Cat. 9656. V. jamaicensis, Linn.; Roxb. Hort. 
eng. 4. 
TROPICAL INDIA from the Punjab and Silhet to Travancore and Singapore; 
CEYLON, plentiful.—Drsrris. Trop. Asia and America. 
A herb, 1-2 ft., nearly glabrous; branches quadrangular. Leaves 1-4 in., sub- 
obtuse, base decurrent. Spikes 3-12 in., neariy continuous. Calyx } in., 4-nerved. 
Corolla 3-4 in., deep-blue. Pyrenes à in.—Probably naturalized in Asia; the ex- 
amples from extra-tropical India are almost surely escapes. 
VI. PRIVA, Adans. 
Erect herbs. Leaves toothed. Spikes slender; bracts small, narrow. 
Calyx tubular, shortly 5-toothed ; in fruit enlarged, ovoid with a very small 
mouth. Corolla-tube narrowly cylindric; limb oblique, patent, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anther-cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled, 
cells 2-ovuled; style linear, stigma on one side. Fruit dry, separating into 
2 2-seeded pyrenes.— Species 9, chiefly tropical American. 
P. leptostachya, Juss. in Ann. Mus. vii. 70; leaves petioled ovate, 
spikes long interrupted, calyx with hooked hairs, fruit obcordate muricate. 
Walp. Rep. iv. 35; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 533; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fil. 198. P. abyssinica & P. Forskalii, Meyer; Jaub. & Spach. Ill. Pl. Or. 
tt. 453-455. "Tortula aspera, Roxrb.; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 359; Roth Nov. Sp. 
299, Streptium asperum, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 25, t. 146, and Fl. Ind. iii. 90; 
Wall. Cat. 2657; Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 230, t. 130. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; Roxburgh, Wight, &c.— DisTRIB. Africa. 0. 
Stem 6-18 in. Leaves 13 by 3 in., crenate-serrate, thinly somewhat softly hairy in 
all the examples, but (ex Roxburgh) covered with stiff hooked hairs; petiole 1 in. 
Spikes 6-12 in., lower flowers distant. Calyx i by 4 in. in flower ; in fruit 1 in. 
broad, hispid with 1-celled white hooked hairs. Corolla } in., white. Pyrenes 
obcordate, with 2 rows of hooked small spines on the back, each presenting a large 
cavity towards the axis. 
VII. VERBENA, Linn. 
Pubescent herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled, 
toothed or pinnatifid. Spikes terminal, simple or corymbose; bracts and 
flowers small. Calyx tubular, shortly 5-toothed. Corolla tubular; limb 
More or less oblique, sub-2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 
cluded; anthers ovate, 2-celled, cells sub-parallel. Ovary 1-celled, more or 
less 4-lobed (sometimes even at flower-time 4-celled), 4-ovuled; style short, 
obscurely 2-lobed; ovules attached laterally near the base of the cell. Fruit 
Included in the calyx; pyrenes 4 or fewer, oblong.—Species 80; all except 2 
merican, WP 
V. bonariensis, Li . Hort. Beng. 4; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 541), 
native of Brazil, is naturalized in the Himalaya, the Nilgherries, and elsewhere in the 
Old World. It has sessile, oblong, sharply serrate leaves, and short spikes in dense 
corymbs or heads, 
V. officinalis, Linn.; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 547; herbaceous, 
leaves oblong or ovate pinnatifid or coarsely toothed, spikes panicled slender 
ultimately inte ted below. Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 27; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 
4; Wall. Cat. 1825; Hayne Pl. Off. 5, t. 42; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 534. 
