422 XCYII. TEnnENACE.E. 



Stachi/tarpheta mutahiUs, Vahl, Eiium. v. 1 (1805) p. 208. An erect 

 branchin<ij shrub reaching 6 ft. high, a native of S. America, with acutely 

 tetragonal branches, ovate leaves deciirrent into the petiole and flowers 

 in long spikes reaching 1 ^ ft, long. The corolla is at first crimson then 

 rose-colored. Grab. Cat. p. 154 ; Dalz. & Gribs. Suppl. p. 68 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359. Verbena mutabilis, Jacquin, 

 Collect, v. 2 (1788) p. 334. 



5. PRIVA, Adans. 



Erect herbs. Leaves toothed. Flowers solitary, bracteate, arranged 

 in simple terminal or axillary spikes or racemes ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 

 tubular, becoming inflated in fruit, 5-ribbed, the ribs terminating in 

 short teeth. Corolla-tube narrowly cylindric, straight or curved ; limb 

 spreading, 5-lobed, sub-2-lipped, the 2 upper lobes usually shorter than 

 the 3 lower. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the middle of the 

 corolla-tube, included ; anther-cells parallel or slightly divergent ; upper 

 staminode m.inute or 0. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style 

 long, filiform, persistent ; stigma on one side. Fruit dry, enclosed in 

 the dilated calyx-tube, separating when ripe into two 2-seeded pyrenes. 

 — DiSTRiB. Warm regions of both hemispheres ; species about 10. 



1. Priva leptostachya, Juss. in Ann. 3Itis. Par. v. 7 (1806) p. 70. 

 An erect branched herb 1-3 ft. high ; stems quadrangular, pubescent 

 (especially at the nodes), with small often hooked hairs ; iuternodes long. 

 Leaves 1-3 by |-2 in., ovate or elliptic, obtuse, clothed on both sides 

 with fine hooked hairs and also with a few stout hairs above, coarsely 

 crenate-serrate, base subcordate or truncate, but slightly decurrent on 

 the petiole; petioles :|-1J in. long. Flowers distant, in long spicate 

 racemes 6-12 in. long ; rhachis quadrangidar, more or less pubescent 

 with small often hooked hairs; pedicels ^^ i"- l""g ; bracts J^ in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, hairy. Calyx i in. long, nearly cylindric in flower, 

 becoming nearly globose in fruit, densely clothed with fine spreading 

 hooked hairs ; teeth small, acute. Corolla pure-white ; tube } in. long, 

 scMrcely enlarged above ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-lobed ; lower lip 

 larger than the upper, deeply 3-lobed. Fruit enclosed in the enlarged 

 calyx, ^ in. long, obcordate, readily splitting into 2 glabrous pyrenes 

 which are reticulately pitted, echinate on the back with 2 rows of 

 straight and curved spines, deeply excavate on the faces. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 565; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 198; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 349; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359. 8trej)tium asperum, Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 25, t. 14'i; Grab. Cat. ]). 154.— Flowers : Dec- 

 Jan. 



Eare. Deccan : Bijapiir, Coukc !, Woodroir ; Dapuri on old walls, I)r. Lvs/i ex 

 Graham. Sind : Woodrow ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), Africa. 



6. CALLICARPA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; young branches stellately hairy. Leaves opposite 

 (rarely ternate), crenulate, scrulate or toothed (rarely quite entire). 

 Flowers small, in axillary sessile or jiedunculate many-flowered cymes 

 which are shorter than the leaves. C^alyx very small, shortly campanu- 

 late, truncate or miinitely l-lobed. unaltered in fruit. Corolla purple 



