1100 CXXV. VERBENACEiE. [Syrnphoreme,^, 



3-partito lobis ovatis. Stamina 4, sub faxice affixa, exaerta, quinto postico omnino 

 deficiente ; anthers breves, locxiHs parallelis. Ovarium ultra medium 2-loculare, loculis 

 2-ovidatis imperfecte 2-locelIati3, summo apice l-loculare ; stylus longiusculus, apice 

 yix brevissime 2-fidus ; ovula ab apice axeos placentiferi pendula. Fructus. . . . — 

 Frutices scaudentes, tomentosi, pilis simplicibus stellatis iiitermixtis. Folia opposita, 

 integerrima. Cymse capituliformes pedimeulatre, secu.s ramos panicuke tevminalis 

 oppositse, bracteia ad basin pedunculorum parvis. Involucri bractere in nostris 

 speciminibus constanter 3, lis generum 2 prsecedentium similes, sed basi ad unum latus 

 cymse subconnatie quasi l-seriales. 



Species 2, BirniK et peuinsiilje Malaj-an* incolse. Schaii. in DC. Prod. xi. 623. Wight, Ic. t. 

 U79, 1479/3. U79/a. 



TrIBUS VIH. AVICENNIE.^. 



59. Avloennia, Linn. Gen. App. n. 1237. (Bontia, Linn., sewDonatia, Lmfl. Itin. 193. 

 Upata, Adans. Fam. Kat. ii. 201. Sceura, Forsl: Fl. j^g. Arah. 37. Halodendron 

 Thou. Gen. Nov. Madag. 8, Jlde Sc}utueri.)~Ga.ljx hrevis, 5-partitns, fructifer immutatus 

 segmentis ovatis imbricatis. Corollttj tubus brevis, late cylindraceus, rectus ; limbus 

 patens, 4-fidus, lobis suba^qualibus v. postico pauUo latiore. Stamina 4, faiici affixa, 

 filamentis brevissimis ; antherie subexsertw, ovatie, loculis , parallelis. Ovarium 

 eolumna central! 4-alata imperfecte 4-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis ; stylus brevis apice 

 tec[ualiter 2-lidiis ; ovula a eolumna central! inter alas pendula. Fructus late capsularis, 

 obmpressus, valvis 2 crasaiusculis dehiscens. Semen abortu unicum, erectum ; embryo 

 integnmentis ovuli baud accretis denudatua, cotyledonibus maximis in longitudinem 



plicatis, radicula infera villosa, plumula conspicua jam ante fructus casum accrescens. 



Frutices glabri v. cauescentes. Folia opposita, integerrima, coriacea. Cymte contract®, 

 capituliforme.s, pedunculatas, in axillia superioribus seepe geminag, v. ad apices ramorum 

 in thyraum brevem v. corymbum trichotomum dispoaitfe. Floros parvi, sessiles. Bractete 

 calyce breviorea. 



Species 3 v. 4, ad littora marium regioniim calidionim utrlusque orbis latissime dispersje. Schmt. 

 in DC. Prod. xi. 698, et in Mart. Fl. Bras. ix. 304. Jacq. Siirp. Amer. t. l\2. Griff, in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. us.. 1, t. 1. Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. t. 47. Wall. PI. As. Bar. t. 271. Wight, Ic t U81 

 1482. 



Ordo CXXVI. 



Eridl. Gen. 607. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 659 (Laietace^t:). Benth. Labiatarum Gen. et Sp. 1832- 



1836. Bunge, Labiatae Persicae in Mem. Acad. Imp. Petersb. ser. 7, sxi. 



Floras hermaphroditi, ssepius irregulai-es. Calyx inferus, persistens, gamosepalua, 5- rarius 

 4-merus, dentatus lobatns v. 2-labiatus. Corolla gainopetala, tube evoiuto brevi v. elongate 

 polymorpho ; limbus 5-fidus v. lobia posticis connatis 4-fidus, 2-labiatu.s v. obliquus, ri^ius 

 subrequaliter campanulatus ; lobi imbricati, posticis exterioribus, antico intimo, lateralibus 

 intermediis. Stamina perfecta 4, didynama v. rariua aequalia, t. 2, tube corollje affixa lobis- 

 que alterna, quinto postico in didynamis, 3 in diandris omnino abortientibus v. ad staminodia 

 parva reductis ; filamenta inter se libera v. rarius monadelpha, in generibus paucis dente 

 appendiculata. ^«*ft«r«varise, ad normam dorsifixa*2-loculai-e3, loculis rimalongitudinali 

 dehiacentibus, interdum vero confluentia v. loculo uno abortiente l-loculares v. hetero- 

 morphre. Diverts hypogj-nus aa?pius crassus carnosus, nunc requalis v. in lobos 4 glan- 

 duliformes lobis ovarii altemos productus, nunc obliquus v. antice in glandulam aeu lobuni 

 unicum interdum ovario longiorem productus. Ovarxnm superum, ad basin 4-partitum, v. 

 rariua breviter v. ultra medium 4-lobum, lobis erectis per paria lateralibiia intua Idoculari- 



