3. Rhabdia.] Si. BORAGINACEJE. 



beneath. Calyx persistent 5-partite, sepals acuminate. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Drupe i" orange-red with 4 crustaceous 1-seeded pyrenes. 



Fam. 83. VERBEMCEJE. 



Trees or shrubs or more rarely herbs, often with stellate 

 hairs and often with a characteristic foetid or aromatic smell 

 generally arising from small or miscroscopic peltate glands. 

 Branches 4-angled or not. L. opposite or sometimes 3-nately 

 whorled, simple or (in Vitex) digitately compound. 

 Stipules 0. Fls. usually zygomorphic, never solitary. Calyx 

 gamosepalous persistent sub-entire or 4-5-or ^Symphorema) 

 4-8-toothed. 8t. usually 4 rarely 2 or more than 4 (Sym- 

 phorema). Ovary superior 2-4-celled, 4-ovuled (but see 

 Durante). Style simple terminal, entire or shortly bifid. 

 Fr. usually a drupe with 1-4 pyrenes, sometimes nearly 

 dry. Albumen 0. 



I. Inflorescence of lax, corymbose, or 

 panicled cymes. Fr. a drupe with.1-4 

 pyrenes or a 1-4-eelled stone, or of 

 drupels, or nearly dry in Caryopteris. 



A. Fls. regular. St. exserted spreading. 



Panicles axillary, corymbose . . . . 1. Callicarpa. 

 Panicles very large terminal . . • .2. Tectona. 



B. Fls. irregular. St. didynamous. 



L. digitate. 3. Vitex, 



L. simple. 



Trees or shrubs. Fls. very small white or 

 greenish 4. Premna. 



Shrubs. Fls. with a long slender corolla tube . 5. Clerodendron. 



Shrub. Fls. blue with short corolla- tube. Fr. 



sub-capsular .6. Caryopteri?. 



Tree. Fls. over 1* yellow, corolla tubular ven- 

 tricose ........ 7. Gmelina. 



A woody climber with patelliform scarlet calyx . 8. Holmskioldia. 



II. Inflorescence of capitate cymes, or con- 

 tracted or elongate spikes. 



Fls. in capitate spikes. Drupe succulent . . 9. Lantana. 



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