180 SELAGINE® (Rolfe). [Agathelpis. 
geogr. Documente, 89, 162; Walp. Rep. iv. 169; Choisy in DC. 
Prod. xii. 23, 
SoutH AFRICA: without precise locality, Pappe, 52! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; near the waterfall on Devil’s Mountain, 1000-— 
1500 ft., Drége! Wolley Dod, 632! Harvey! Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, 
Harvey ! 
Orper CIV. VERBENACEZ. 
(By H. H. W. Pearson.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous, irregular or, in a few 
genera, regular. Calyx inferior, persistent, gamosepalous, campanu- 
late, tubular or cup-shaped with 4, 5, or rarely 6-8 lobes or teeth, 
rarely subtruncate. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube usually cylindric or 
dilated above, often curved, rarely very short and broadly campanu- 
late; limb 5-, 4- or rarely many-lobed, regular or more or less 
2-lipped ; lobes spreading and flat or the posterior 1-2 suberect, 
the anterior frequently larger, sometimes concave, imbricate in bud, 
the posterior rarely the lateral being outermost, the anterior inner- 
most. Stamens 4, perfect, didynamous, or 2, inserted on the 
corolla-tube and alternating with the lobes, the posterior (or 
posterior 3) usually small, anantherous, reduced to a staminode or 
altogether absent ; filaments free, filiform or slightly thickened or 
broader at the base, inappendiculate ; anthers dorsifixed, introrse, 
with 2 distinct parallel or divergent cells, opening by longitudinal 
slits. Disc usually inconspicuous, sometimes thickened and fleshy 
beneath the ovary, very rarely annular. Ovary superior, sessile, 
formed of 2 (or, by abortion, 1) carpels, syncarpous, acute, obtuse, or 
retuse, 4-furrowed or rarely shortly 4-lobed, in the young condition 
normally 1-celled becoming later 2-celled by the intrusion of the 
ovuliferous margins of the earpels; cells 2- or (by abortion) 
1-ovuled, becoming later 2-chambered by the formation of a spurious 
septum between the ovules ; style terminal, entire ; stigma terminal, 
usually oblique or bifid at the apex. Ovules erect, pendulous or 
laterally attached to the infolded edges of the carpels or, rarely, to a 
central column. Fruit usually more or less drupaceous ; mesocarp 
juicy, fleshy or dry ; endocarp hard, bony (rarely thin). Seeds always 
separate in distinct cells or chambers; albumen in section Stilbee 
fleshy, otherwise usually 0 or scanty; embryo straight ; cotyledons 
flat or a little thickened at the base, free or rarely much thickened 
and fused together; radicle inferior, short, sometimes minute. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees ; leaves, except in a few genera, opposite or whorled, 
entire, dentate or incised, in Vitex usually digitately compound; inflorescence 
spicate or racemose or with the ultimate branching cymose, the cymes being 
centripetally developed, opposite or trichotomously paniculate; bracts usually 
small ; flowers often brightly coloured. 
About 73 genera, including 700 species in the tropical regions of both 
hemispheres ; very few in subtropical and temperate areas, 
