Stachytarpheta. ] Verbenacee. 23% 
III, p. 6 (1921). Abena jamaicensis Hitchc. in Miss. Bot. Gard. Rep. 
IV, p. 117 (1873). 
Tropics generally; probably a native of Tropical America. 
Mr. Goode of the British Museum informs me that Linnzus’s 
species, though based on Sloane’s plate, is represented in his 
herbarium by a Hortus Upsalensis plant, which is something else 
altogether, and by a specimen of S. indica as here interpreted. The 
latter received from P. Brown after the publication of the Species 
plantarum. 
S. urticefolia Sims is referred to S. dichotoma Vahl in the Index 
Kewensis and in De Candolle’s Prodromus. 
Zollinger 849, the type of S. bogoriensis is referred to S. indica in 
DC. Prodr. 
2. S. indica Vahl Enum. ], p. 206 (1805); Schau. in DC. Prodr. 
XI, p. 546 (1830). ?Verbena indica Linn. Syst. Nat. X, p. 851 (1759). 
S- jamaicensis Bot. Mag. t. 1860. S. indica var. jamaicensis Trim. 
Fl. Ceyl. III, p. 348 (1895); Gamble Fl. Madr. p. 1000 (1924). 
Tropics generally ; probably a native of Tropical America. 
Page 349.—For Priva leptostachya Juss. read: 
P. Forskohlei E. Mey Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. p. 275 (1835) 
(Forskaolii). Verbena Forskaolei Vahl Symb. Bot. III, p. 6 (1794). 
Strepttum asperum Roxb. Cor. Pl. I], p. 25 (1798) non P. aspera 
H. B. K. Zapania arabica Poir. Encycl. VIII, p. 844 (1808). Priva 
leptostachya Juss. in Ann. Mus. VII, p. 70 (1808). P. dentata Juss. 
Pec i: 
5a. VERBENA Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves usually opposite; infl. spicate 
or paniculate; cal. tubular, 5-ribbed; corolla 5-lobed; stam. 4, 
didynamous, included; ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each 
cell; fruit of 4 pyrenes.—Sp. 80; America. 
Infl. much branched; bracts equalling cal.-segm. ; 
fls. violet. . 1.0) a genosa 
Infl. usually simple ; ‘bracts longer # than cal. -segm. ; 
fls. pale mauve . ; . 2. V. bonariensis. 
V. veNosa Gill. & Hk. Bot. Misc. I, ‘p. 6 (1830); Hk. in. Curt 
Bot. Mag. t. 3127 (1832). 
Herb up to 3 ft. high; stem square, rough; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, 2-4 in. long, toothed, rugose, scabrous; infl. ter- 
minal, much-branched. 
Grassy places about Nuvara Eliya and Hakgala. Fls. May, Sept. ; 
violet. 
A native of the Argentine, also found in India and Africa. 
Trimen’s specimens appear to be V. bonariensis Linn. 
2. V. BONARIENSIS Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 20 (1753). 
Herb under 2 ft. high; stem square, hispid; leaves oblance- 
olate, 2-3 in. long, deeply toothed or irregularly lobed, 
sparsely hairy; infl. usually simple. 
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