308 VERBENACE®. (VERVAIN FAMILY.) 
3. STACHYTARPHA, Vahl. 
Calyx tubular, compressed, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-cleft, hairy 
in the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, the upper pair sterile. Ovary 2-celled. 
Stigma capitate. Fruit of two 1-celled 1-seeded nutlets. — Herbs or shrubs, with 
4-angled forking stems, and opposite undivided leaves. Flowers in straight and 
rigid spikes, imbedded in excavations of the thickened rachis, and covered by 
the imbricated bracts. 
1. S. Jamaicensis, Vahl. Herbaceous, smoothish; stems ascending; 
leaves oblong, coarsely serrate, tapering into a slender margined petiole; spikes 
linear, terete, elongated ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, appressed, with scarious 
rough margins; flowers small, blue. — South Florida. — Leaves 2!- 4! long. 
Spikes 8’- 12! long. 
4, LIPPIA, L. 
Calyx tubular, membranaceous, 2—4-toothed. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, ——— 
somewhat bilabiate, 5-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Ovary 2-celled, 
2-ovuled. Style short: stigma obliquely capitate. Fruit of two 1-seeded sepa- 
rable nutlets. — Herbs, with 4-angled stems, opposite or whorled simple leaves, 
d and small flowers in dense spikes or heads. 
1. L. nodiflora, Michx. Stem creeping, finely pubescent, the flowering 
branches erect ; leaves obovate, oblong, or lanceolate, rough, tapering and entire 
below the middle, serrate above; heads dense, globose in flower, oblong oF 
cylindrical in fruit, on axillary peduncles which are 2-3 times as long as the 
leaves; flowers white or purple. (Zapania nodiflora, Lam.) — Damp sandy 
soil near the coast, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May - Sept.— 
Flowering stems 6/— 12' high. Leaves 1' long. : 
5. LANTANA, L. 
Calyx minute, slightly 4-toothed. Corolla bilabiate ; the upper lip notched 
or entire ; the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Style short: 
stigma oblique. Fruit fleshy or berry-like, of two mostly rugose or tuberculate 
1-seeded nutlets, enclosed in the enlarged membranaceous calyx. — Shrubs, with 
simple rugose serrate leaves, and axillary peduncled capitate bracted flowers. _ 
1. L. involucrata, L. Var. Floridana. Stem much branched, p" 
bescent; leaves small (}/- 17), oval or obovate, crenate, rounded at the apex; 
densely pubescent when young, at length rough above, contracted into a slender 
petiole; peduncles 2-3 times as long as the leaves, the upper ones corymbose; 
heads small; bracts ovate, as long as the tube of the small (2”- 3") white: 
_ corolla; the outer ones empty and narrower, involucrate. — South Florida. 
2. L. Camara, L. Stem pubescent, hirsute, or spiny; leaves — oe 
oblong, acuminate, erenate, short-petioled, very rough above, pubescent beneath; e 
peduncles as long as the leaves ; bracts lanceolate, half as long as the tube of te 
e none. — St. Mary's, Georgia, Elliott. June- 
. yellow corolla; iny 
