1142 VERBENACEAE 
L. depressa Small. Shrub with unarmed prostrate branches, 2-11 dm. 
ong a "blades ovate P np. 1-3.5 em. long: spikes less than 2.5 c no 
rolla yellow; tube 5—6 ong; stone of the drupe globose, 25-35 
jud scarcely beaked. ed Everglade Keys, Fla 
4. L. ovatifolia Britton. Shrub 2 m. tall or less: leaf-blades ovate, 3-7 em. 
long, erenate-serrate: spikes over 2.5 em. Wide: eorolla yellow; tube 9-10 mm. 
long: stone of the drupe ovoid, 4-5 mm. long, beaked. — Hammocks, S. pen. 
Fla.— 
5. L. Sellowiana Link & Otto. Shrub 3-18 dm. tall, with tomentulose foliage: 
leaf-blades ovate, oval, or elliptie-ovate, 1-3 em. long, a abruptly narrowed or 
truneate at the base: corolla magenta or lilae; tube puberulent; limb 8-18 mm. 
high, the lower lobe elongate.—(POLECAT- GERANIUM. WEEPING-LANTANA. Um 
Roadsides, waste-plaees, pinelands, and woods, Fla. Nat. of S. A.—(IF. I.) 
6. hrub 4—17 dm. tall, E puberulent or tomentulose 
foliage: rs ds ov val, obovate, to suborbieular, 1-3 em. long, u ud een 
at bu base: n braets of the involuere 4— m. long, ciliolate: x be- 
eoming 1.5 mm. long: corolla white or pue. pu Pes tube 2-4 m 2g limb 
2-4 mm. high. [L. odorata L.]—(SAGE.) —Pinelan oe hammocks, “sand dunes, 
S pen . Fla. and Florida Keys; S Tex.—(W. I., Mez., 'C. A . A. ) 
9, CITHAREXYLUM L. Shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny. Leaf-blades 
d 
mainly entire. Flowers in clusters or idi spikes. Calyx obscurely 5-lobe 
Corolla mainly : tube straight 
ne so: limb Monde blique ms 
equally  5-lob Staminodium present 
Stigma 2-lobed.  Nutlets 2Z.—About 20 spe- 
cies, tropic American 
1. C. fru Shrub or small tree, 
with Ens paste twigs: leaves 5-15 
cm. long; be d elliptie or dus) d 
veiny: spikes or emes: fruit 
9-10 n mm. me : villo 
Y REED )-— Hammocks and jx 
pinelands, S pen. Fla. and Florida Keys.— &. 
(W. I.)—-All year. 
10. DURANTA L. d or trees, often spine-armed.  Leaf-blades en- 
tire or toothed. Flow in raeemes. Calyx more or less prominently but 
minutely 5-lobed; the M plieate. Corolla 
salverform or funnelform: tube mainly 
curved: limb slightly unequally 5-lobed, 
Staminodium mostly obsolete. Stigma 4- 
d or capitate. Nutlets 4. — About 8 
species, tropic Americ 
D. repens L. Shrub or small tree: leaf- 
blades ovate-elliptie, oval or obovate, 1.5— 
m. | 
fr ut 7-11 mm. in diameter, enclosed in the 
