Bouchea.] Vcvbenacece. 347 



is adopted by Thwaites, and L. Ccunara, L., in Fl. B. Ind. iv., 562; but 

 our plant is always prickly, and is well represented in the figure quoted 

 by Linuceus for his L. aculeata (Plukenet Phyt. t. 233, f. 5) made from a 

 plant then (1696) in cultivation at Hampton Court. The Sinhalese call 

 the plant Rata-hingtiru and Gandapana (the latter transferred from 

 Mappia ovata, but the Lantana has a pleasanter scent than that plant). 



2. X.ZPFZA, Z. 



Herbaceous, widely creeping", 1. small, opp., serrate, fl. very 

 small, in dense long-stalked axillary heads; cal. of 2 almost 

 distinct segm.; cor.-tube short, wide, limb 2-lipped, upper lip 

 2-, lower 3-lobed, with the middle lobe the largest ; stam. 4, 

 didynamous; fruit minute, globose, dry, splitting into 2 

 I -seeded pyrenes. — Sp. 90; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Xi. nodiflora, Rich, tft Mich. Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 15 (1803). Heri- 

 mezia-detta, S. Podutalai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 56. FL Zeyl. n. 399. Verbena nodiJio7-a., L. Sp. PI. 20. 

 Thw. Enum. 241. C. P. 1947. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 563. Wight, Ic. t. 1463. 



Stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, much-branched, sub- 

 quadrangular, glabrous; 1. numerous, small, \--\\ in., spathu- 

 late, cuneate at base, obtuse, deeply and sharply serrate in 

 upper part, rather thick, glabrous, minutely punctate, petiole 

 short, obscure ; fl. sessile, densely packed, heads at first nearly 

 globose, but becoming spicate and oblong in fruit, peduncles 

 1-3 in. from axil of one only of each pair of 1., bracts ovate, 

 acute or subacute; cor.-limb scarcely ^^ in. diam., lobes 

 spreading, rounded ; fil. and style very short ; fruit about yV ^"' 



Sands of the seacoast, also margins of tanks in the dry region ; very 

 common. Fl. all the year ; very pale violet-pink. 

 In all Tropical and warm temperate countries. 

 The leaves are used in native medicine. 



3. BOUCKEA, Cham. 



Herb, woody at base, 1. opp., coarsely serrate, fl. rather 

 large, sessile, on (but not sunk in the axis of) long dense 

 spikes, bracts small, linear; cal. tubular, narrowly cylindrical 

 very strongly 5-ribbed, split down one side in fruit, segm, 5, 

 long, bristle-like; cor.-tube slender, lobes 5, large, the lowest 

 one the broadest; stam. 4, didynamous, included; fruit 

 enclosed in cal., dry, linear-oblong, splitting into 2 i-seeded 

 pyrenes. — Sp. 16; 2 in FL B. Ind. 



