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salverform, its tube straight or incurved, slightly dilated above, its limb 

 spreading, oblique, slightly 2-lipped, with 5 short lobes. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, included; anthers with parallel or slightly divergent sacs. Ovary 2- 

 celled, each cavity with more or less well developed septa. Ovules 2, or by 

 abortion 1, at ba?e of each cavity. Fruit enclosed in the calyx, separating into 

 2 nutlets. [Name unexplained.] About 10 species, of tropical distribution, 

 the following typical. 



v 1. Priva lappulacea (L.) Pers. Syn. 2: 139. 1806. 



Verbena lappulacea L. Sp. PL 19. 1753. 



Priva echinata Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. 7: 69. 1806. 



More or less pubescent. Stems 2-6 dm. tall, branching; leaves ovate, 2-10 

 cm. long, acute or acuminate, serrate, truncate or cordate at the base, the 

 petioles much shorter than the blades ; racemes loosely flowered, 5-15 em. 

 long; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx cylindric-prismatic, 2-3 mm. long, accres- 

 cent, pubescent; corolla slightly surpassing the calyx, salverform, with short 

 rounded lobes; fruit ovoid-pyramidal, 5-7 mm. long; nutlets included in the 

 calyx, spiny-tuberculate on the back, 3-4 mm. long. 



Waste places, coppices and cultivated ground, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, 

 Eleuthera. Watling's, Parrot Cay and Inagua : Florida ; West Indies : Mexico to 

 Brazil. Erroneously referred by Dolley to Teucrium inflatum Sw. Bur Vervain. 

 Cat's-toxgue. 



4. GHINIA Schreb. Gen. 19. 1789. 

 [Tajioxea Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 659, pi. 268. 1775. 

 Xot Aubl. 1: 441, pi. 175. 1775.] 

 Herbs or low shrubs, with slender stiff branches, opposite, nearly sessile, 

 dentate or incised leaves, and small bracted flowers in terminal and axillary 

 slender spikes. Calyx tubular, subtruncate, 5-ribbed, the ribs excurrent as 

 short teeth. Corolla with a cylindric tube slightly enlarged above, and an 

 oblique, spreading, 5-cleft limb. Stamens 4, didynamous, borne on the corolla- 

 tube, included; anther-sacs parallel, the connective with a gland-like appendage. 

 Ovary nearly completely 4-celled; ovule 1 in each cavity; style short; stigma 

 oblong. Fruit small, hard, mostly 4-horned, 4-celled. Seeds usually 4, without 

 endosperm. [Guiana name.] Four or five species, of tropical America. Type 

 species: Tamonea spicata Aubl. 



1. Ghinia curassavica (L.) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 174. 1906. 



Verbena curassavica L. Sp. PI. 19. 1753. 



Tamonea curassavica Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 139. 1806. 



Tamonea scabra Cham. & Schl. Linnaea 5: 99. 1830. 



Erect, simple or branched, roughish, 2.5-6 dm. high, slender. Leaves 

 ovate, short-petioled, membranous, sparingly puberulent, 2-4 cm. long, serrate, 

 acute at the apex, mostly obtuse at the base; racemes long-pediunlcd, very 

 slender, the flowers distant; pedicels shorter than the calyx; calyx oblong, 

 about 4 mm. long, distended by the ripening fruit and becoming obconic, it^ 

 teeth linear, about 1 mm. long; corolla 5-6 mm. long; fruit 4-5 mm. long, its 

 spines 1-2 mm. long. 



A weed in waste places, New Providence: Cuba; Mexico. KPINY-FBUITED 

 Vervain. 



5. LIPPIA L. Sp. PI. 633. 1753. 



Perennial herbs, or shrubs, with opposite, or rarely alternate leaves, an 1 



small bracted flowers, in spikes or heads. Calyx small, ovoid, campauulate or 



