420 XCVII. VERBENACE^. 



1. Lippia nodiflora) Midiavx, Fl. Bor. Amer. v. 2 (1803) p. 15. 

 A creeping perennial herb; stems rooting at the nodes, much-branched, 

 subquadranguhir, more or less clothed with appressed, medifixed, white 

 hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, subsessile, |-1| by 

 |-| in., spathulate, cuneate at the base, rounded at the apex, deeply 

 and sharply serrate in the upper part, appressedly hairy on both sides 

 with meditixed white hairs. Flowers sessile, densely packed in long- 

 pedunculate axillary heads which are at first globose, at'terwai'ds elongate 

 and becoming spicate and oblong in fruit ; peduncles 1-3 in. long, 

 usually from the axil of one only of each pair of leaves ; bracts y^ in. 

 long, broadly elliptic or obovate with a somewhat cuneate base, 

 mucronate, glabrous. Calyx y^^ in. long, membranous, deeply 2-lobed, 

 compressed, mitre-shaped, pubescent on the back with basifixed hairs, 

 closely covering the fruit, the 2 acuminate lobes projecting beyond it. 

 Corolla jTj— g in. long, white or pale-pink, pushed off as a calyptra by the 

 ripening fruit, 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, bifid ; lower lip 3-lobecl, the 

 middle lobe the largest. Fruit y^^ in. long, globose-oblong, dry, splitting 

 into two 1-seeded plano-convex glabrous pyrenes. Fl. B, I. v. 4, p. 563 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 198 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1463 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 347 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 5, p. 78. Zapania nodiflora, Lam. Tab. Encyc. v. I (1791) 

 p. 59 ; Grab. Cat. p. 158. — Flowers : more oi* less all the year. 

 Veen. RatoUya. 



Common in grassy and sandy places throughout tlie Presidency. Deccan : 

 Woodrow ; Poona, Cooke ! ; Bijapur, Woodrow ! Gujakat : Woodrow ; Porbandar, 

 Cookel Sind: Cooke\, Woudrow. — Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, Africa, and 

 most tropical and subtropical regions. 



3. BOUCHEA, Cham. 



Perennial herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, 

 petiolate, ovate or oblong, usually toothed. Flowers sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate, in terminal spikes or spicate racemes, solitary in the axils of 

 persistent bracts which are shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles minute 

 or 0. Calyx narrowly tubular, prominently 5-ribbed, obliquely truncate 

 or shortly 5-toothed, usually becoming more or less dilated below as the 

 fruit ripens, at length splitting longitudinally to the base. Corolla-tube 

 long, slender, cylindric ; limb spreading, oblique, with 5 subequal lobes. 

 Perfect stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the upper part of the 

 corolla-tube, included ; filaments very short ; anthers ovate with parallel 

 cells. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, erect from the base of 

 the cell; style filiform; stigma sub-2-lobed. Fruit usually shorter 

 than the calyx and enclosed in it, separating into two elongate-oblong 

 1-seeded pyrenes. — Distiub. Tropical and IS. Africa, Tropical x\nierica, 

 India ; sj)ecies 25. 



1. Bouchea marrubifolia, Schauer, in DC. Prodr. v. 11 (1847) 

 p. 558. A much-branched woody perennial herb ; stems and branches 

 ])ubescent. Leaves h-^ by j|-l in., broadly ovate or suborbicniar, 

 coarsely toothed, pubescent on both sides, strongly nerved and rugosely 

 reticulately veined, base truncate or shortly cuneate ; jietioles 4-| in. 

 long. Flowers sessile, in nearly continuous spikes reaching sometimes 

 8 in. long, closely appressed to the pubescent rhachis ; bracts }>^-\ in. 



