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VERBENA VENOSA. STRONG-NERVED 
VERVAIN. . 
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Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.— VERBENACE2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-fidus, dente unico subbreviore. Cor. limbus irre- 
‘gulariter 5-lobus. Stam. inclusa. Utriculus 4-spermus, 
cito rumpens, ut maturi fructus caryopses sistant. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
VERBENA venosa ; asperrima, caule acute tetragono, foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus basi latis subcordatis 
venosis grosse acutissimeque serratis, spicis termina- 
libus decussatim paniculatis, corollis calyce cylin- 
draceo 4-plo (bractea 3-plo) longioribus. | 
VerBena venosa. Gill. et Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 1. p. 167. 
Descr. This Versena, in the wild state, is about a foot 
in height, and decumbent at the base ; in our stove, it rises 
nearly erect to a height of two to three feet. Its stem is — 
rough, acutely quadrangular, but little branched. Leaves — 
Opposite, remote, rough, oblongo-lanceolate, sharply, 
coarsely, and unequally serrated, strongly marked with 
veins, which are immersed above, and prominent beneath, 
the apex acute, the base sessile, narrow in the lower leaves, — 
In the rest broad and somewhat cordate. At the setting-on — 
of the peduncles of the flowers, the leaves become lanceo- 
late, or lanceolato-subulate, acute, entire bracteas. The 
_ peduncles themselves are opposite, three to four pairs placed 
m a sort of decussated panicle, having a terminal, nearly 
Sessile spike. Spikes oblong, with rather closely imbri ated, 
