320 VERBENACE.E. 



Verbena bonariensis LUin ; F.B.L iv 565 ; VII- 

 Easily distinguished from the above by the much more 

 numerous and slenderer spikes, with inconspicuous 

 bracts and smaller flowers- 

 Leaves sharply serrate in the further half, entire in 

 the nearer. Flowering part of stem much branched so 

 as to form a large cymosely branched corymb of twenty 

 to forty spikes, which are often in well-marked cymes 

 of three of which the middle spike is sessile, the lateral 

 ones stalked. Bracts % to J4 inch. Corolla tube ^toVe 

 inch half as long again as the calyx-shaped or broader 

 upwards, with 14, ^o Ye inch limb. Stigmatic lobes 

 distinct. Fruit enclosed in the calyx which is now a little 

 longer than the bract, t. 214 (doubtful). 



Native of Brazil. Said to occur as an escape on the Nilgiris' 

 but I have not myself seen it. 



Plants at Kew of the Himalayas and Nilgiris named by Clarke for the 

 F.B.I, as '.his species, are V. venosa Gill and Hooker. 



CLERODENDRON. f.b.i. xiv. 



Shrubs or trees with the characters given above for 



the family but the flowers in cymes. Calyx, campanu- 



late and corolla tube slender, with limb of five spreading 



lobes, more or less two-lipped. Fruit fleshy with four 



stones. 



Species about 70 in warm countries; more especially the 

 east. 



Clerodendron serratum Spreng ; F.B.L iv 592, XIV II* 



A robust shrub with large coarsely serrate leaves, and 



terminal narrow panicles 3 to 6 by 2 inches, of blue 



flowers, with conspicuously wide oblique mouth, and long 



protruding stamens and style. 



Pulneys : near Kodaikanal on the slopes below the cemetery 

 and near the ghat road. Nilgiris : Coonoor, not at high levels. 

 Fyson 287. Bourne 143. 



Gen, List. Himalayas to Ceylon, common in Bengal. 



