CalHcarpa.l VerbeuacecB. 340 



Throughout Trop. Asia and America. 



This is probably originally an introduction here from America. 

 Linnaeus received it from Ceylon from Van Royen, and the specimens 

 were, no doubt, collected by Hermann ; but there are none in his own 

 herbarium. The two varieties are quite easily recognised, though the 

 characters are but slight. The Bot. Mag. figures are good. The flowers 

 are sometimes white. 



Mr. W. Ferguson sent me in 1884 from Galboda, Ambagamuwa, a 

 singular plant, obviously a natural hybrid between this and S. miitabilis, 

 Vahl, a pink-flowered species often cultivated in gardens. 



5. PRZVA, Adans. 

 Perennial herb, 1. opp., toothed, fl, small, nearly sessile, in 

 very lax, slender, terminal spikes ; cal. tubular, becoming 

 inflated with fruit, covered with short hooked hairs, segm. 5, 

 short, toothlike; cor.-tube slender, lobes 5, short, nearly equal, 

 rounded; stam. 4, didynamous, included; ov. 2-celled with 2 

 ovules in each cell, style long, persistent; fruit enclosed in 

 enlarged cal., dry, readily splitting into two 2-seeded pyrenes, 

 which are spinous on the back and have a large hollow cavity 

 on the ventral side. — Sp. 9; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. leptostachya, /z/j'j-. in Ann. Mus. vii. 70 (1808). 



Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 172. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 565. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. t. 130. 



Stem 2-4 ft., erect, slender, quadrangular, scabrous with 

 ~small hooked hairs; 1. distant, 2-3 in., ovate, subcordate at 

 base but slightly decurrent on petiole, obtuse, strongly 

 crenate-serrate, scabrous with bristly hair on both sides, 

 petiole i-i| in.; fl. on very short ped., distant, spikes very 

 long, often 2 ft. or more, bracts small, linear, hispid; cal. 

 about \ in., teeth acute; cor.-tube over |^ in.; fil. hairy; fruit 

 \ in., rounded, compressed, glabrous, spines short, stout, 

 curved. 



Dry region; very rare. About Tissamaharama Tank, S. Prov., 

 frequent. Fl. December ; pure white. 

 Also in S. India and Africa. 



Verbena venosa, Gill. & Hook., a native of South Brazil, &c., has 

 escaped from gardens in the hills, and is often found in a wild state on 

 roadsides and waste ground about Nuwara Eliya. 



6. CAZ.X.ZCARPA, L. 



Small tree, branchlets young shoots, &c., covered with a 

 thick stellate tomentum, 1. opp., entire; fl. small, numerous, in 

 dichotomous axillary cymes; cal. very small, cup-shaped, 



