ORDER 90. VERBENACE.E. 235 



3 D. oviita Walt. St. square, ascending, 48' ; leaves lance-ovate, acute, longer than 



the 3-4-flo .vcred peduncles ; corolla pale-purple, 34". S. Car. to Fla. 



4 D. liumilis Wood. Erect, square, 1 Ij-f; leaves lance-elliptical, shorter than the 



00 - flowered, 1-sided spikes ; corolla 5", purple. Fla. to La. (Justicia MX.) 



7. CYRTANTHERA, Nces, Corolla ringcnt, upper lip falcate, lower 

 in 3 narrow segments. Sta. 2, anth. nodding. Caps. 4-seeded ? u Brazil. 

 C. CARNEA. Stem tall, stout, with ample ovate to oblong leaves, and large, showy, ter 

 minal spikes of many nesh-colorer 3 flowers. In the greenhouse. 



ORDER XC. VERBENACE^E. VERVAINS. 



Herbs (or generally shrubs and trees) with opposite, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers with a bilabiate or more or less irregular monopetalous corolla. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, rarely equal, sometimes only 2. Styte 1. Fruit 

 diy or drupaceous, 2-4-celled (l-celled in Phryma), forming as many 1- 

 seeded nutlets. Seeds erect or pendulous, with little or no albumen. 



5 Herbs. Fruit dry, consisting of 



a 4 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 5-lobed VERBENA. 1 



a 2 two-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 5-cleft, minute, spicate. S. Fla PRIVA ecliinhta. 



a 2 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 2. Flowers spicate, imbedded. S. Fla STACHYTAHPHA. 



a 2 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 4-parted LIPPIA. 



a 1 one-seeded nutlet, reflexed. Stamens 4. Corolla bilabiate PHRYMA. 3 



$ Shrubs. Fruit fleshy, berry -like (or a 2-celled capsule in No. 7). . .(/>) 



b Leaves compound, digitate. Flowers 5-parted. Seed 1 VITKX. 6 



b Leaves simple, toothed. c Cymes axillary. Drupes 4-seeded CALLICARPA. 4 



c Heads axillary. Drupes 2-seeded LANTANA. 5 



b Leaves simple, entire. d Drupe 2-seeded. Spikes terminal (ALOYSIA.) 2 



d Drupe 4-seeded. S. Fla CITHAREXYLCM viUdsum. 



d Drupe 8-seeded. S. Fla DORANTA PlumMri. 



d Capsule 4-seeded. Flowers in heads ..AVICENNIA tomenttea. 



1. VERBENA, L. VERVAIN. Calyx 5-toothed, with one of the teeth 

 often shorter. Cor. funnel-form, limb somewhat unequally 5-lobed, lobes 

 emarginate. Sta. 4, included, the upper pair sometimes abortive. Drupe 

 splitting into 4, 1-seeded, indehiscent carpels. Herbs or undershrubs. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers sessile, mostly in spikes or heads. 



VJorymbed ; the open corollas of the spike forming a corymb. Stems weak. . .(a) 



a Leaves 3-cleft or pinnatifid, the lobes cut-serrate or toothed NOB. 13 



a Leaves merely serrate or toothed, somewhat incised Nos. 47 



Spicate ; the open corollas lateral, in slender spikes. . .(b) 



b Stem simple (mostly), bearing a single spike. Leaves oblong. Nos. 8, 9 



b Stem branched, with many spikes. c Leaves mostly simple Nos. 1012 



c Leaves much divided Nos. 1315 



1 V. Aubletia L. Lvs. ovate-oblong in outline, 3-parted, cut, acute and petiolate at 

 base ; spikes pedunculate ; bracts half as long as the cylindrical calyx. Dry soils, Va. 

 to HI., and S. If. Flowers lilac, varying in the gardens to purple. April, May. 

 {} V. INCISA. Leaves oblong to deltoid, rugous, cut-lobed and serrate, abrupt at base, 

 pe tiolate ; bracts ovate, a fourth as long as the glandular calyx ; corolla rose-purple. 

 V- Brazil. Stems some shrubby, ascending. 



3 V. MULTIFIDA. Small, creeping, branched ; leaves multifld into narrow, acute seg- 

 ments ; bracts subulate, shorter than calyx. (T) Brazil. Red to white. 



