Verbena.]} VERBENACE (Pearson), 209 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3127; Walp. Rep. iv. 27 ; Schauer in DC. Prod, 
xi. 541. 
Katawari Raion: Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1176! 
A native of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres ; introduced also into Texas, Madeira, 
and St. Helena. 
2. V. bonariensis (Linn. Sp. Pl. 20); a tall perennial herb ; stem 
erect, unbranched below, acutely 4-angled, striate, seabrid-pubescent ; 
internodes 23-5 in. long; leaves opposite, amplexicaul, auriculate, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, stiff, scabrid, rugose above, hispid on the 
nerves beneath, with margins strongly revolute, coarsely and acutely 
dentate-serrate, with 4-6 sharply ascending primary lateral nerves 
on each side, impressed above, prominent beneath, not excurrent 
in the teeth, 2-42 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad 3 panicle terminal, 
very lax, dichotomously branched, with fastigiate branches, 
bracteate, 4-12 in. long; spike cylindric, dense, bearing numerous 
bracteate lilac flowers, 1-2 in. long, 3 in. in diam.; bracts 
lanceolate, acuminate, with a strongly marked midrib, hispid, 
2-7 lin. long, 8-11 lin. broad; calyx of the flower cylindric, 
slightly dilated below in fruit, coloured, obliquely and acutely 
toothed, pubescent without, hirsute on the ribs, minutely pubes- 
cent within, 11-2 lin. long; corolla-tube cylindric, pubescent 
without and within in the upper part, 2-3 lin. long; stamens inserted 
below the middle of the corolla-tube ; ovary and style about 12 lin. 
long, glabrous ; fruit enclosed in the dilated calyx; coccus shortly 
oblong, striate, 3-8 lin. long. Kniph. Orig. Cent. 2, ».98; Gaertn. 
Fruct. i. 315, ¢. 66, fig. 1; EB. Meyer, Comm. 274; Walp. Rep. iv. 
19; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 541; Clarke in Hook. Sj. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. iv. 565. V. capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 447 partly. 
V. quadrangularis, Vellozo, Fl. Flum. t. 39. 
Coast REGion: Cape Diy. ; near Rondebosch, in damp places, below 400 ft.,° 
Drége! Rehmann, 1704! Tygerberg, near Pampoenkraal, at 500 ft., Drége, 
Newlands Avenue, Wolley Dod, 481! Stellenbosch Div.; near Somerset West, 
Ecklon § Zeyher ! 
A native of Brazil, introduced into various parts of the Old World. 
3. V. officinalis (Linn. Sp. Pl. 20); a tall perennial herb; stems 
erect, 4-angled, striate, scabrid on the angles, otherwise glabrous ; 
leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, sheathing at the base, oblong, 
oblong-lanceolate or rhomboid-ovate, narrowed towards the base, 
more or less deeply trifid, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, with the lobes 
acute or obtuse, coarsely inciso-dentate, adpressed puberulous or 
glabrescent, thin, 1-4 in. long; panicle terminal, much branched, 
wide, more or less leafy below, 3-14 ft. long; branches slender ; 
spikes bracteate, very lax, slender, bearing numerous lilac flowers, 
distant below, crowded above, 6-9 in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, 
with the midrib very prominent beneath, pubescent beneath, glabrous 
above, not exceeding 1 lin. long; calyx cylindric, minutely toothed, 
glabrous within, pubescent without, hispid on the ribs, about 1 lin. 
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