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flowers reseuibliug those of the garden Verbena but smaller. Plowers 

 during January and February and often springs up from self-sown seeds. 

 Woodr. Gard, in Ind. ed. 5, p. 421. 



Verbena officinalis, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 20. A native of the 

 Himalayas and Bengal, sometimes found as a weed in gardens. It has 

 variously lobed leaves and small blue flowers in terminal spikes. Fl. B. 

 I. V. 4, p. 565; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 229. 



The garden Verbenas of various colors, well known as bedding plants 

 in England, are grown largely in gardens. They are hybrids, the 

 principal parent of which is supposed to be Verbena chamcednj folia, Juss. 

 in Ann. Mus. Par. v. 7 (18U(5) p. 73, a native of S. America. 



Citharexylum subserratum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oce. v. 2 (1800) 

 p. 1043. A shrub, a native of the AV. Indies, with tetragonal branches, 

 elliptic or obovate subserrate leaves and short axillary nodding racemes 

 of white fragrant flowers which appear in November and December. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359. 



Duranta Plumieri, Jacq. Select. Stirp. Am. (1763) p. 186. An erect 

 bushy shrub, a native of 8. America and the West Indies, with spinous 

 branches, oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves and blue flowers borne in 

 great profusion in racemes at the ends of the branches, succeeded by 

 orange-colored berries. It blooms more or less throughout the year 

 and makes a good hedge. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 560 ; Dalz. & Gribs. Suppl. 

 p. 70 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359. 



HolmsTcioldia sanr/iiinea, Retz. Obs. fasc. 6 (1791) p. 31. A straggling 

 shrub, a native of the subtropical Himalaya, remarkable for its large 

 subrotately carapanulate red calyx reaching 1 in. in diam. in fruit. Fl. 



B. I. V. 4," p. 596; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 260. 



Petrea voluUlis, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 626. A large climber with 

 ovate or lanceolate scabrous leaves 3-4 in. long, a native of Tropical 

 America. The flowers are inodorous, in copious racemes, remarkable 

 for the large persistent purplish-blue calyx which remains long after the 

 violet corollas have fallen off. Bot. Mag. t. 628 ; Dalz, & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 70 ; Jacq. Select. Stirp. Am. p. 180, t. 114 (Petnea in text, Petrea in 

 Tab.). Petrcea volubilis, Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 420. The genus 

 was named by Linnaeus after Lord Petre, and should be written Petrea 

 not Petrasa (Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 319), 



Congea tomentosa, Roxb. Cor. PI. v. 3 (1819) p. 90, t. 293, var. azurca, 



C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1885) p. 604. A large climbei 

 much cultivated in N. India and often grown in gardens in the Bombay 

 Presidency, with elliptic acute leaves and large lilac bracts beneath the 

 cymes. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360. Congea 

 azurea (sp.). Wall. Cat. 1733; Wight, Icon. t. 1479, 1, fig. A. Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Suppl. p. 69 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 420. 



