VERBENACEJE. (VERVAIN FAMILY.) 905 
4. DICLIPTERA, Juss. 
Calyx 5-parted, mostly leafy-bracted. Corolla bilabiate, mostly reversed ; the 
lower lip 3-lobed ; the upper 2-cleft or entire. Stamens 2: anther-cells equal, 
one placed behind the other. Capsule oblong or oval, bearing 2 or 4 seeds be- 
low the middle; the partitions at length free from the valves. — Herbs, with sim- 
ple leaves, and purple, scarlet, or white flowers i in axillary and terminal heads or 
spike-like cymes. 
1. D. brachiata, Spreng. Smooth or nearly so; stem 6-angled, with 
humerous spreading branches; leaves thin, oblong-ovate, acuminate, abruptly 
Contracted into a long and slender petiole; spikes solitary or 2 —3 together, 
interrupted, unequal; bracts oblong, mucronate, narrowed at the base, at length 
inflated; corolla small, purple. (Justicia brachiata, Pursh.) — Hn, 
Florida to North Carolina. July and Aug. — Stem 19 - 2? high. 
?. D. Halei, Riddell. Stem tomentose, mostly simple; leaves ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate but rather obtuse, tapering into a petiole, sprinkled on the 
upper surface and veins beneath with very short hairs ; the lower ones smaller 
and obtuse; spikes axillary and terminal, short-peduncled, leafy at the base, 
compact, ror t braets oblong or oval, mucronate, short-stalked, and, 
like the linear-spatulate bracteoles, and subulate calyx-lobes, fringed with long 
hairs; capsule oval, 4-seeded. (Justicia lætevirens, Buckley? Rhytoglossa 
- viridiflora, Nees.) — Shady banks of rivers, Florida, and westward. June- 
September. — Stem 39-29 high. Leaves 2'-4' long. Corolla 4" - 5"! long, 
white. : 
3. D. assurgens, Juss. Smooth or minutely pubescent; stem angled, 
much branched; leaves elliptical, acute, on slender petioles; flowers mostly 
Single, scattered in 1-sided spike-like cymes ; bracts small, unequal, the interior 
Ones subulate, the exterior larger and somewhat spatulate; calyx-lobes subulate, 
unequal ; corolla (scarlet) curved, nearly equally 2-lipped; the upper lip entire, 
the lower minutely 3-toothed ; anthers slightly exserted ; style hair-like, elon- 
gated. — South Florida. — Stem 19 2° high. Leaves 1! - 2! long. Corolla 9” 
- 19" long. 
Orver 93. VERBENACE. (Vrnvam FAMILY) | 
Chiefly herbs or shrubs, with 4-angled mostly rough stems, and oppo- 
site and exstipulate leaves. Flowers spiked, capitate, or cymose. — Ca- 
_lyx 4— 5-cleft or parted, free. Corolla regular and salver-shaped, or more 
. Or less bilabiate, 4 —5-lobed. Stamens 4— 5, inserted on the tube of the 
Corolla: anthers 2-celled. Ovary entire, 1— 8-elled, with 1 or (in Avi- . 
. Cennia) 2 ovules in each cell. Style simple, ' terminal. Fruit dry y= 
- Cate, 1 —8-celled, commonly Bc into as many 1-seeded 
("ates Albumen scarce or none. Embryo straight. — 
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