348 Verbenacece. \Stachytarpheta. 



B. hyderabadensis, W'alp. Rep. iv. 12 (1844). 



Thw. Enum. 241. C. P. 3574. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 564. Wight, Ic. t. 1462. 



Semi-shrubby herb, branches sub-quadrangular, glabrous ; 

 1, 3-4 in., lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering at base, 

 acute, deeply serrate, glabrous above, pubescent on veins 

 beneath, petiole \-\ in.; fl. crowded and imbricated on stout 

 terminal spikes 4-12 in. long, bracts linear, | in., slightly 

 hairy; cal. -^ in., ribs and segm. with hispid hairs; cor.-tube 

 \ in., lobes flat, spreading, obtuse; fruit § in. 



Open places in intermediate or dry country ; very rare. Only found 

 on a patana between Medamahanuwara and Alutnuwara in 1858 by 

 Thwaites. Fl. Feb.; bright pink. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



4. STACHVTARPHETA, Vahl. 



Annual, 1. opp., serrate, fl. small, sunk in the axis of very 

 long terminal spikes; cal. tubular, flattened, with 4 acute 

 teeth; cor.-tube narrow, cylindrical, limb nearly as long as 

 tube, lobes 5, somewhat unequal, rounded, flat, spreading; 

 stam. 2, included in tube; fruit very small, enclosed in cal., 

 oblong, dry, splitting into 2 i -seeded pyrenes. — Sp. 40; i in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



*S. indica, Vahl., E7ium. i. 206 (1805). Bala-nakuta, 6". Nai- 

 oring-i, T. 



Verbena indica., L. Syst. Nat. x. Thw. Enum. 241. C. P. 3153. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 564. Bot. Mag. t. 1848 {S. tirticcefolia). 



Stems 1-3 ft., erect, dichotomously branched, young shoots 

 slightly quadrangular, pubcrulous; 1. 3-4 in., sessile or nearly 

 so, broadly oval but much tapering to base, acute, coarsely 

 serrate, glabrous or nearly so, venation reticulate, depressed 

 above, prominent beneath; fl. small, numerous, sessile, closely 

 arranged in long narrow terminal spikes, and each sunk in a 

 separate cavity of the axis, bracts small, adpressed, acumin- 

 ate, spikes stiff, curved, cylindrical, ultimately 10-15 in.; 

 cal. \ in., segm. short, acute; cor.-tube \ in., slightly curved; 

 limb f-i in. diam.; style persistent; fruit \ in. 



Van /3, jamaicensis. S.jamaicensis^Vd^A. Bot. Mag. t. i860. " 



Leaves oblong-oval, with fewer and larger serrations, entire 

 at the base and tapering more gradually into petiole, thicker 

 in texture, and of a paler green, less veined; flowers rather 

 paler in colour. 



Roadsides and wet places ; very common weed. Fl. all the year % 

 bright blue-purple. 



