210 VERBENACEE (Pearson). [ Verbena. 
long ; corolla-tube delicate, cylindric, about twice as long as the calyx; 
stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube ; ovary and style 
about 1 lin. long; cocci shortly oblong, striate, 4-1 lin. long. Burm. Fl. 
Cap. Prodr.1; Flor. Dan, t. 628; E. Meyer, Comm. 274; Walp. 
Rep. iv. 25; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 547; Clarke in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 565; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 286; var. 
natalensis, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 68. V.spuria, Linn. Sp. Pl. 20; 
Walp. l.c. V. sororia, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 104; Sweet, 
Brit. Fl. Gard. iii. t. 202. V. setosa, Mart. § Gal. Bull. Acad. 
Brua. xi, ii. 821; Walp. l. ¢. vi. 687. 
Sourn AFRICA: without precise locality, Zeyher, 1361! 13865! Miller! Harvey, 
405! 
Coast Rrcion: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchel/, 503! Newlands 
Avenue, Wolley Dod, 492! roadside near Rondebosch, Pappe ! 
Katanart Region: ‘Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1175! near 
Pretoria, Wilms, 1175! on the Magalies Berg, Burke, 59! Linokaua, in the 
Marico District, Holub / 
Eastern Region: Transkei Div.; on the banks of the Bushee River, 500 ft , 
Drege; Griqualand East; by streams near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2105! 
Natal ; near the Umlaas (Umlazi) River, Krauss, 151! near Durban, Sanderson, 
92! Camperdown, Haygarth, 473 (in Herb. Wood, 164) ! near the Mooi River, 
Gerrard, 12419! 
XI. DURANTA, Linn. 
Calyx tubular or subcampanulate, truncate or minutely 5-toothed, 
in fruit accrescent, closely adpressed to the enclosed drupe but free 
from it, and usually constricted at the mouth. Corolla: tube 
cylindric, straight or curved; limb spreading, oblique or regular, 
5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted at or above the middle of 
the corolla-tube, included; anthers ovate, inappendiculate, with 
distinct, parallel cells. Ovary of 4 carpels. more or less perfectly 
8-chambered, containing 1 ovule in each chamber; style short ; 
stigma terminal, obliquely dilated, very short, unequally 4-lobed. 
Drupe quite (rarely almost) enclosed in the accrescent calyx, with 
juicy epicarp and bony endocarp; pyrenes 4, each 2-celled and 
2-seeded, 
Glabrous or tomentose shrubs, unarmed or with axillary or supra-axillary 
spines ; leaves oppo-ite or whorled, entire or toothed; racemes terminal, rarely 
axillary, usually panicled, long or short; flowers small, shortly pedicelled in the 
axils of small bracts. 
About 8 species, ranging from Bolivia and Brazil to the West Indies and 
Mexico. One species is introduced in Tropical and South Atrica. 
1. D. Plumieri (Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 186, t. 176, fig. 76) ; 
an unarmed or spinous shrub, 5-10 ft. high; branches angular or 
terete, glabrous or finely pubescent, with tawny bark and prominent 
lenticels ; spines (when present) in or above the leaf-axils, spreading, 
straight or slightly curved, 3-% in. long ; leaves opposite, shortly 
tioled, oblong, elliptic or ovate, acute or obtuse, cuneate or 
rounded at the base, entire or serrate above the middle, glabrous ; 
