( 1860 ) 
STACHYTARPHETA JAMAICENSIS: JAMAICA 
| ‘Basrarp-VERVAIN. 
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Class and Order. 
Dranpria Monoeynts. 
‘ Generic Character. 
Cal. tubulosis, 4-dentatus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, inw- 
qualis, 5-fida, curva. Stam. 4: 2 sterilia. Sem. 2. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
STACHYTARPHETA jamaicensis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis sursum 
dentato-serratis basi elongato-integerrimis, bracteis ovatis 
calyce brevioribus. : 
STACHYTARPHETA jamaicensis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis dentato- 
serratis glabris, ramis hirtis, bracteis ovatis calyce bre- 
vioribus. Vahl Enum. 1. p. 206. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. 
p. 46. excluso synonymo Salisburii. 
VERBENA jamaicensis ; diandra, spicis longissimis carnosis 
nudis, foliis spathulato-ovatis serratis, caule hirto. Jacq. 
Obs. 4. p. 6. t. 85. Syst. Veg. 66. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 
p. 115. Mart. Mil. Dict. n. 3. | 
Versena folio subrotundo serrato, flore ceruleo. Sloane 
Hist. t. U7. f. 1. 
Vatertanettowes. Boerh. Lugd. alt. 2. p. 270. 
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This plant is altogether more robust and of lower growth 
than SracHyTaRPHETA urticifolia, No. 1848, its leaves are 
more fleshy, more coarsely and bluntly sawed, and quite en- 
tire from a little below the middle, with their base gradually 
elongated into a footstalk. The stems and branches, we 
observe, vary with respect to hairiness; the pubescence in 
the plant from which our drawing was taken was hardly visible 
to the naked eye. We have not seen any cilie at the base Pe 
