VERBENACE^. 319 



Species 700, chiefly in the tropics. None belong truly to 

 these high levels. 



Flowers in spikes, mouth very small .... verbena. 

 Flowers in narrow panicles of cymes, mouth very wide . . . 



CLERODENDRON. 



VERBENA. F.B.I. Ill VII. 



Vervein. 



Pubescent herbs or undershrubs with the characters 



given above for the family. Flowers in terminal spikes, 



calyx tubular five-toothed and five-nerved. Corolla with 



slender tube and spreading limb or five nearly equal 



oblong-obtuse lobes. Ovary of four cells with one erect 



seed in each. Fruit separating into four stony parts 



each with one seed. 



Species 100 natives mostly of America. V. officinalis, Vervein 

 is widely distributed over the whole world. Here we have only 

 two garden-escapes. 



Spikes few, i to 2 inches by J/^ to J^ inch : corolla tube J^ 

 inch ............... V. venosa. 



Spikes twenty to forty in a large cymose corymb : corolla 

 tube y^ inch ........... V. bonariensis. 



Verbena venosa Gill and Hooker ; VII 2 ; stem 2 to 3 

 feet angled, pubescent. Leaves sessile, and clasping the 

 stem by their broad auricled bases, 3 by I inch, elliptic or 

 lanceolate, acute : margin with sharp outwardly directed 

 teeth : upper surface scabrid : lower with prominently 

 raised nerves and veins. Spikes long-peduncled, termi- 

 nating the stem and in the axils of the uppermost bract- 

 like leaves, I to 2 inches by J^ to J^ inch. Corolla tube J^ 

 inch curved upwards ; limb 54 inch. Stigmatic lobes small. 

 Fruit egg-shaped, 1/8 by 1/16 inch, enclosed in the calyx 

 from which the persistent style still protrudes, t. 213. 



Native of Brazil. Common at Kodaikanal, where Mr. 

 Tracey of the American Mission tells me it was introduced by 

 him accidentally among grass seed. Nilgiris : Ootacamund 

 Coonoor, etc., no doubt as a garden-escape. Fyson 3061. 



