260 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. vervain 



short footstalks, lanceolate, two inches long, and half an inch broad, serrate, the teeth 

 of the jags coming from the point of the fold or plait ; flowers on long naked stalks 

 from the axils, blue, and collected in oval-heads. Browne says it grows about the Fer- 

 ry and lower lands of St. Catherine, that it is biennial or triennial, and stretches by a 

 slender woody stalk five or six feet, and is furnished with a great number of oblongs 

 serrated and veined leaves, adorned with a fine d^vvn below. 



5. NODIFLORA. KNOT-FLOWERING. 



Verbena nodiflora ineana currassavicalatifolia. Sloane, v. 2, p. 187, 

 Nodifiora repens Joliis obovatis sup'erne crenatis, pedunculis longis 

 solilariis, fioribus conglobatis. Browne, p. 11 6, V. 3. 



Four stamened, spikes conical-headed, leaves wedge-shaped, toothed ; stem 

 creeping. 



Roots simple, filiform. Stems herbaceous, creeping, ascending, from three inches- 

 to a foot in length, sub-divided, roundish, marked with lines, smooth ; leaves opposite 

 and decussated, on short petioles, cuneate-obovate, serrate-toothed, nerved, thickish, 

 smooth on both sides, having pores underneath. Peduncles solitaiy, terminating, erect, 

 angular; spike terminating, roundish, composed of small whitish or rose-coloured flow- 

 ers, separated by bractes, which are sessile, imbricate, square, aetiminative, concave, co- 

 loured ; calyx compressed a little, two-toothed, teeth erect, keeled, ciliate at the back ; 

 tube of the corolla longer than the calyx, but scarcely curved in ; border slightly five- 

 cleft ; the Upper segment emarginate, almost upright, shorter ; the anterior ones equal, 

 spreading ; the middle one three-notched ; anthers twin, yellow ; germ two-grooved ; 

 style short, thick ; stigma sub-capitate, green ; seeds two, roundish, flatter on one side, 

 covered by a membrane, forming a sort of thin Capsule. Sirartz. Brown calls it the 

 round-leafed creeping vervain, common in the low moist lands of Jamaica, and easily 

 known by its obtuse crenated leaves and round-headed spikes. 



G. URTIClFOLIA. NETTLE-LEAVED. 



Hirsuta, Joliis ovato-acuminatis atque serratis, spicis tcnuissimis pluri~ 

 mis, culiculis subadnatis. Browne, p. 117, V. 6. 



Four stamened, spikes filiform panicled ; leaves undivided, ovate -serrate, acute, 

 petioled. 

 Stems four-cornered, about three feet high ; leaves three inches long, and an inch 

 broad in the middle, ending in acute points, serrate, and placed by pairs ; panicles ter- 

 minating, long, slender, composed of small white flowers, ranged loosely. Browne 

 calls it the hairy vervain with slender spikes growing pretty common in St. Mary's, 

 but rare in other parts of the island, though he met with some specimens about the 

 Ferry. It thrives best in a cool and rich soil. 



7. GLOBIFI.ORA. GLOBULAR-FI.OWEREB. 



Ne.pcta maxima, /lore albo, spica habit iori. Sloane, v. I, p. 173, t. 



10S, f. l. J'roccrior ; foliis ovato-acuminatis, serratis ; spicis via- 



joritnts, coynpositis, terminalibus ; spicillis geminatis, unoversujlori- 



dis. Browne, p. 259. Galleopsis, 2. 



Four stamened, spikes in globular heads, leaves lanceolate, crenate, wrinkled, 



rugged, stem shrubby. 



Stem-, 



