Priva.] VERBENACEZ (Pearson). 207 
1-3 in. long, {-2 in. broad ; petiole 3~2 in. long; raceme terminal 
or axillary, elongate, bearing many distant shortly pedicelled white 
flowers on a slender 4-angled striate pubescent axis, 3-1 ft. long; 
bracts linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate, glabrous above, pubescent 
beneath, 3~1 lin. long; bracteoles 0; calyx of the flower cylindric 
globose in fruit, densely pubescent with fine spreading hooked hairs 
without, minutely puberulous within, 1-1 in. long ; corolla-tube 
glabrous without, puberulous within about the middle, about + in, 
long ; upper lip deeply 2-lobed; lower larger than the upper, deeply 
3-lobed ; anther-cells divergent below; staminode 0; fruit ovate- 
emarginate or obcordate, composed of 2 slightly coherent 1- or 
2-seeded cocci separated by an excavated commissure, muricate on 
the back, 13~2 lin. long, 13-3 lin. broad. Pers. Syn. ii. 139; 
Wall. Cat. 2657 C; Walp. Rep. iv. 35; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 
533; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 565; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 285. P. dentata, Juss. 1.c¢.; Pers. 1. ¢.; Walp. 
Rep. iv. 35; Schauer l. c. ; Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 68; O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 254, P. Forskaolii, E. Meyer, Comm. 275; Jaub. 
§ Spach, Ill. Plant. Or. v.59, t. 455; Walp. l.c. P. abyssinica, 
Jaub. § Spach, l. c. 58, tt, 453, 454. P. Meyeri, Jaub. § 
Spach. 1. ¢. 57. Verbena Forskalii, Vahl, Symb. iii. 6. Streptium 
asperum, Roxb. Pl. Corom. ii. 25, t. 146; Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 
754; Wight in Hook, Journ. Bot. i. (1834) 230, ¢. 130. Tortula 
aspera, Roxb. in Willd. Sp. Pl. iti. 359. Zapania arabica, Poir, in 
Lam. Eneyel. viii. 844. 
Soutn AFrica: without precise locality, Alewander ! 
Coast Reeion: Uitenhage Div.; grassy mountainous places near Enon, 
1500 ft., Drége! Albany Div.; Blue Krantz, Burchell, 3625! in thickets near 
Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1433! King Williamstown Div.; Zand Plaat, 1500 ft., 
Drége; British Kaffraria, in thickets, Mrs. Barber, 21! 
CrentraL Reaion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, Burchell, 32241! 
Albert Div. ; without precise locality, Cooper, 1770! 
Katanari Reeion : Transvaal ; river banks on the plains around Barberton, 
2800 ft., Galpin, 746! 
Eastern Region: Transkei Div.; banks of the River Bashee, 500 ft., 
Drége. Natal; Berea, Wood, 4092! around Durban Bay, Krauss, 420! 
near Durban, Wilms, 2191! 2202! Kuntze, and without precise locality, 
Grant! Peddie! Sanderson, 319! Delagoa Bay! without precise locality, Junod, 
301, Forbes! 
Also in Tropical Africa, Socotra and India. 
X. VERBENA, Linn. 
Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, unchanged or only slightly 
dilated at the base in the fruiting stage. Corol/a: tube straight or 
curved, cylindric or slightly dilated upwards ; limb spreading, sub-2- 
lipped, with 5 obtuse rounded or emarginate lobes, the 2 posterior 
being outside and the anterior innermost in the bud. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, included, inserted about or above the middle of the 
corolla-tube ; anthers ovate with parallel or somewhat diverging 
cells, all inappendiculate or with the connective of the anterior pair 
