11. SrMPHOEBMA.] 82. VEUBENACEM. 



recognized in flower by its whorls of grey involucral leaves 

 surrounding a 7-flowered cyme of white flowers with a 12- 

 16-partite corolla and an equal number of exserted stamens. 



Dry Sal forests in Singhbhum. Fla. April. Deciduous at the time of 

 flowering. 



Petiole 4-f v . Bracts ^obovate 1-H" long foliaceons, toothed above. 

 Corolla i" long. Fr. included in the calyx, nearly dry, 1-seeded. 



2. S. involucratum, Roxb., which is found in the Monghyr hills, 

 may very likely occur in the Eajmehal hills. It may be distinguished by 

 its smaller size and the corolla only J" long and 6-8 lobed. 



Stachytarpheta indica, Vahl. (Syn. S. jamaicenBis),is a herb 1-2* 

 ft. high with spikeB of blue flowers sunk in the rachis, a pestiferous weed 

 in many gardens which have been under the plough. 



Fls. r. *. 



One or two other species of Stachytarpheta are garden shrubs with 

 red or purple flowers. 



Duranta is an American genus with an 8-celled ovary, and the drupe 

 with 4 2-celled pyrenes. D. flumieri, Jacq., with panicles of pretty 

 small blue flowers, and yellow drupes is frequently cultivated in hedges. 

 D. Ellisii has white flowers. 



Fam. 83. L 1BIAT E. 



Herbs, more rarely shrubs or undershrubs, usually vary 

 aromatic with oil glands. Stems often 4-angled. L. oppo- 

 site, sometimes whorled. Stipules 0. Fls. sub-regular and 4-5- 

 merous, or usually irregular and 2-lipped usually in con- 

 tracted axillary cymes or whorled, more rarely solitary or 

 few, cymes or whorls sometimes forming spikes and panicles 

 from the reduction of the leaves or bracts. Calyx persistent, 

 teeth 4-5 or 1 0, sometimes 2-lipped. Corolla tubular below. 

 St. 4 or 2 more or less suppressed. Disc prominent. Ovary 

 superior of 2 2-ovuled carpels, usually deeply 4-lobed, and 

 each carpel ultimately dividing into 2 dry 1-seeded lobes 

 (nutlets). 



A. Fls. sub-regular, with flat corolla lobes, stamens straight diverging or 

 ascending. Anther cells short, 1-celled. 



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