340 VERBENACE/E. Laniana. 



of the leaf (2 to 5 inches long) : heads globular, at length oblong : bracts ovate, cuspidate- 

 acuniinato, nearly equalling tiie white or purple corolla ; tiie outermost gradually larger 

 but hardly forming an involucre. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 127. — S. W. borders of Texas 

 ( Wri(jht, &c.), and adjacent parts of Mexico, GreciD, Palmer. 



§ 2. Drupe juicy; the 2 nutlets separated, at least at base. Stems sometimes 



prickly or hispid, but this very variable. 



L. Caniara, L. Scabrous and more or less liirsiitc, 1 to 4 feet high : prickles on the stem 

 short and hooked : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, often snbcordate, crenate-serrate, very 

 scabrous above, scabrous-hirsute or softer-pubescent beneath (about 2 inches long) : pe- 

 duncles rigid, about the length of the leaf : head flat-topped in anthesis ; tlie rhachis not 

 elongating : bracts lanceolate, strigose-hirsute, about half the length of the yellow at 

 length orange or even flame-colored corolla. — Plum. Ic. t. 71 ; Dill. Elth. t. 5G. L. horrida, 

 var. parviflora, Schauer in DC. 1. c. ; Torr. 1. c. — S. Georgia and Florida, S. Texas and 

 southward. (Trop. Am.) 



8. CITHAREXYLUM, L. (Name composed of •/.iddoa, guitar or lyre, 

 and ii'Xor, wood, a translation into Greek of the colonial-English Fiddle-wood ; 

 but this name, unfortunately for the etymology, is an lilnglish corruption of the 

 earlier French-colonial name, boisjidek, meaning a wood trustworthy for strength.) 

 — Tropical American shrubs or trees ; with somewhat coriaceous leaves, and small 

 flowers on a filiform rhachis, each subtended by a minute bi-act. 



C. villosum, Jacq. Soft-pubescent or glabrate: leaves oblong-obovate or oblong, entire 

 or occasionally few-toothed above the middle, veiny and with finely reticulated veinlets, 

 shining and barely scabrous above, pale and sometimes soft-canescent beneath, bighmdular 

 at the narrowed base, tapering into the petiole : racemes declining, loose, but spike-like : 

 flowers very short-pedicelled : corolla white, glabrous externally. — Coll. i. 72, & Ic. Rar. 

 t. 118 ; Chapm. Fl. 309. — Key West, S. Florida ; perhaps S. Texas. (W. Ind., Mex.) 



9. DURANTA, L. ( Casfor Dnranfes, wrote upon AV. Indiau plants in the 

 16th century.) — W.Indian and S.American shrubs, often armed with axillary 

 spines ; one has reached our borders. 



D. Plumieri, Jacq. Minutely pubescent or glabrate: branches 4-angled : leaves obovate, 

 oblong, or ovate, mostly entire, contracted at base into a short petiole: racemes panicled, 

 loose: lower bracts often leafy: calyx-teeth subulate from a broad base: corolla lilac: 

 drupe yellow; the enclosing persistent calyx also yellowish, closed into a straight or con- 

 torted beak. --Jacq. Stirp. t. 170, fig. 70, & k-. Kar. t. 502; Bot. Reg. t. 244; Chapm. I.e. 

 1). splnosd & D. incrmis, L. ; the branches sometimes spiny, sometimes unarmed. D. Ellisia, 

 Jacq. Amer. t. 170, f. 77, & Hort. Schoenb. iii. t. 99; Bot. Mag. t. 1759. Ellisia acuta, L. — 

 Key West, S. Florida, BloJgctt. (Trop. Am.) 



10. GALLIC ARPA, L. (/v«'A^o?, beauty, and xaoTrOi,-, fruit: the berry- 

 like drupes ornamental.) — A rather large E. Asiatic and American genus, chiefly 

 of the warmer regions, one in the Atlantic States ; fl. late summer. Pubescence 

 stellular-branched or scurfy. 



C. Americana, L. (Fuench Mulberry.) Shrub low, with scurfy-stellate down and 

 glandular-dotted : leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, obtusely serrate, greenish above, whitish 

 or rusty beneath, acute or cuneate at base : cymes shorter than the petiole, many-flowered: 

 corolla bluish, hardly 2 lines long : fruit violet-colored. — Catesb. Car. t. 47 ; Lam. 111. t. 09. 

 <Syw!c////ofr>rci(s, Mitchell, Nov. Gen. Durchardia Americana, Duham. Arb. ed. 1, i. t. 44. — 

 Rich or moist grounds, Virginia to Texas. (W, Ind.) 



11. AVIClfiNNIA, L. White Mangrove. (Dedicated to Aviceima, 

 the Latinized name of Ibusina, most illustrious of Arabian physicians ; died in 



