VERBENACEJE. 305 



V. LEUCoxri.ox, L. f. Chittagong. Pegu and Upper Tenasserim. 



Htouk-sliah. 



All adult parts ([uite glabrous. Cymes rcppatciUy dichotomous, longer than tlic 

 petiole. 



Kurz desei-ihes the wood as " pale greyish-brown, rather heavy and close-grained, 

 soft, durable, takes a tine polisli, weight 42 lbs." The wood is not heavy, as seasoned 

 samples are only 38 lbs. weight, and I doubt its durability. Kurz adds (following 

 Brandis), "used for cartwheels and recommended for I'urniture." !Now this wood, or 

 any wood, may be used for cartwheels, where no better is available ; but it is never 

 selected for such a purpose, being in notorious (lisfa\our. It is at the best a very 

 second-class furniture wood, weak, and, if I mistake not, rather subject to decay ; 

 hence, though abundant, it is seldom used. 



Kurz adds, from the Isicobars: 



V. KEGUSDO, L. Katchall and Kamorta. 



Callicaepa, Linnaus. 



Cali/x Clip-shaped, rarely tubular, 4-5-toothed or ribbed, and ofti'U angular. 

 Corolla very short, the limb equal, 4-.5-cleft. Stamrns A (rarely o), equal, inserted 

 in the corolla-tube and somewhat pxserted. Ovarii 4-eelled, each cell with a solitary 

 ovule laterally attached. Fruit a small succulent drupe, containing 4 distinct 1-seeded 

 nuts or pyrenes. 



* Leans entire or near!;/ xo. 



C. AHBOREA, Rosb. T. Ail over Burma up to 4000 feet. 



Doung-hsap-pya (Kurz). 



Leaves mealy-tomentose beneath. 



** Leaves serrate. S/irahs with A-merotis flowers. 

 \ Leaves softly pulescent or Jloeeose-tonumtose leneath. 



C. iiACRornvLLA, Till. E.S. Ava. 



Petiole i to 1 inch long. Drupes white. 

 C. RUBELLA, Lindl. E.S. Murtaban hills. 



Petiole 2-3 Hnes long. 



% \ Leaves i/Ialrous, e.reept the meahj turves, at loth ends loDg-aeuininate. 

 C. LOXGIPLEA, Lamk. Martabau, Tenasserim and the Nicobars. 



Drupes depressed-globular, on slender pedicels ; about a line thick, glabrous, 

 snow-white. 



Mason also gives Splienodesme Griffithiana, A^'ight. 



VERBEXIE.T:. 

 Inflorescence indefinite. Ovules erect, anatrojjous. 



VERnEXA, Linnaus. 

 V. OFFicixALis, L. (ir.). Cultivated. 



Common vervain. 



Yerbena or Vervain was held in high esteem among the ancient Greeks and 

 llomans, and also among our own Druids. It was commonly used to decorate altars 

 at religious celebrations, as when Horace makes a feast on the birthday of Maecenas : 

 " Ridot argcnto donius ; Ara castis 

 Viucta verbenis a vet immolato 



Spargier agno." 



Carm. TV.W.fS. 



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