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Clafs and Order. 
Dranpria Monoeyntia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. infundibuliformis, fubaequalis, curva. Calycis unico dente 
truncato. Sem. 2. f. 4. nuda. (Stam. 2. f. 4.) 
Specijte Charader and Synonyms. a4 
VERBENA iripbylla tetrandra, floribus paniculatis, foliis 
‘ternis, caule fruticofo. L’Herit. Siirp. Nove p. 
a1. ¢. 11. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 480. sees a 
ALOYSIA citrodora. Ort. et Pal. diff. MSS. a 
We learn from Monf. L’Heritier, who has figured and 
defcribed this plant, in his work above referred to, that it is 
a native of South-America, from whence it had been tranf- 
mitted to Spain, in the gardens of which it was cultivated in 
the open borders; Prof. Ortreca, of Madrid, fent both plants 
and feeds of it to Monf. L’Heritier at Paris, where Dr- 
SitsrHorp obtained it, on his return from Greece, and intro- 
duced it here in 1784. ae : 
Profeffors Oxteca and Parav firft deferibed this plant, — 
and named it Aloy/ia citrodora, Mont. L’Heririer found: it 
to be a Verbena, and gave it the trivial name of sriphylla. 
The leaves (or any part of the plant) when bruifed, give — 
out a moft delightful fragrance; on this account, it is a moft 
‘valuable acquifition to our gardens: it forms a fhrub of a con- 
fiderable fize; the leaves, as far as we have noticed, always 
grow three together; the Veins on each fide of the midrib run 
parallel to each other; the flowers are fmall, nearly white, 
forming a — which, as far as our obfervation has ex- 
tended (and we have examined many luxuriant fpecimens) is 
never branched in the manner reprefented in L’HraitT1ER’s 
figure; they are produced during moft of the fummer and 
autumnal months, ; oe 
This fhrub, being eafily propagated by cuttings, is now 
become common in the neighbourhood of London, where it is 
treated as 4 greenhoufe plant; in fome parts of this ifland, 
efpecially near the fea, where the winter lofes much of its fe- 
verity, it would, in all probability, fucceed very well in the 
open border, 
