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margin, very narrow indeed, and pubescent, which soon 

 disappears. Leaves a line to a line and a half long. 



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f f Imrmes ; foliis grosse serratis incisis multijidisve. 



14. Verbena honariensis ; data aspera, caule acute tetragono, 

 foliis lanceolatis acutis sessilibus subconnatis venosis 

 grosse serratisj spiels numerosis elongatis, corolla calyce 

 ovato vix dimidio longiore, bracteis subulatis calycem 

 gequantibus. 



Verbena bonariensis. Linn. Sp. PI p. 28. DHL Elth t. 

 300. / 387. 



Hab. Vulgarisj praccipue in locis cultis. In Bonaria atque 



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I possess this plant from almost all the warm parts of 

 South America, from the Cape of Good Hope, from the 

 Mauritius, and from New Holland. The flowers are so 

 crowded as to make the spike appear almost cylindrical. 

 The calyx is closed over the fruit, splitting down to the base 

 in one or more places, most readily on each side of the 

 shorter tooth, which often thus constitutes a separate leaflet. 

 The Verbena littoralis of Humboldt seems to be a variety oi 

 this with shorter spikes than usual. 



Hook 



■ tetragono, foliis lanceolatis acutis sessilibus subconnatis 

 venosis grosse serratis, spicis breviusculis, corolla caljcem 

 cjlindraceum plusquam duplo superante. 



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Ubique tactu asperrima. Folia rigida, laete atque pallii^e 

 virens. Spicce paucae, ternata; nunc proliferae, unciam et 



ultra longtE. Flores laxiusculi. 



In general aspect the present species approaches the fol- 

 lowing rather than the preceding. The bractcae are like 

 those of V, honariensis, but the flowers are very different, for 

 more showy, and of a blueish purple colour. Calyx splittii^g' 

 when the inclosed fruit is ripe, as in the foregoing. 



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