288 XCIII. VERBENACE®. 
tary, rarely in pairs. Fruit either dry, separating at maturity 
into 1-seeded nuts, or drupaceous, with a juicy, fleshy or spongy 
sarcocarp. Seeds erect or pendulous, with or without albumen. 
—A large Order of herbs shrubs and trees. Leaves commonly 
opposite, alternate, in Selaginee, Stilbinee, and a few others 
exstipulate. Inflorescence racemose capitate or cymose. 
Suborder 1. Verbeneze. Corolla with imbricate estivation. Anthers 
2-celled. Seeds erect, exalbuminous, with an inferior radicle.—Leaves oppo- 
site or whorled, very rarely alternate. 
1. EUVERBENEX. Inflorescence indefinite, racemose, 
spiked or capitate or rarely solitary, axillary 
flowers. Ovules erect. (Calyx tubular.) 
Flowers axillary. Ovules 2 in each cell. . . 1. SPIELMANNIA. 
Flowers in heads, spikes, or racemes, or panicled. 
Ovules 1 in each cell. 
Flowers in spikes or heads. 
Limb of corolla 5-lobed. 
Ovary 4-celled. 
Fruit of 2, rough or bristled, 2-celled 
ULSI : 2. PRIVA. 
Fruit of 4, striate or - ridged nuts . 3. VERBENA, 
Ovary 2- celled. 
Calyx herbaceous, splitting in fruit. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, perfect. . 4. BoucHa. 
Calyx membranous, compressed, 2- 
ribbed. Stamens 2 perfect, 2 with- 
outanthers .... . . . . 5, STACHYTARPHA. 
Limb of corolla 4-lobed. 
Fruit of 2, dry, separate or cohering nuts. 6. Lrppta, 
Fruit a fleshy or juicy drupe . . . 7, Lantana. 
Flowers in loose racemes or panicles. Ovary 8- 
celled. Fruit concealed in the coloured 
calyx rou lis. . 8. Duranta. 
2. VITICER. Tiifleriecedibe definite, cymose. ovate 
pendulous. Stamens exserted. 
Corolla subequally 5-lobed, with a long tube . 9. CLERODENDRON. 
Corolla 2-labiate. Stamens ascending. 
Leaves simple. (Peduncles sometimes 1- 
flowered). . . 10. CycLronEMa. 
Leaves compound, digitate, very rarely 1- 
foliolate: (i): 5 20) AG Oe OL URL, ian 
3. AVICENNIER. Inflorescence capitate or spiked. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 4-fid. Ovules pen- 
dulous. Embryo germinating within the pe- 
ricarp. 
Character the same as that of the tribe . . . 12. AVICENNIA. 
Suborder 2. Stilbineze. Calyx and corolla with induplicate-valvate 
eestivation. Anthers 2-celled. Seeds erect, albuminous, with an inferior 
radicle-—Leaves alternate, linear. 
Calyx equally semi-5-fid. Corolla-lobes membranous, 
blunt. Fruit l-seeded . . ... . =. . . 18, Srizps. 
