Lippia. — Verbena. ” 809 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. lll. Flor. d’Eg., p. 119 no. 808. — Zapania 
nodiflora Lam. Ilustr. I, p. 59. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. Graec., 
tab. 553. — Verbena nodiflora L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 28. — A prostrate 
or creeping perennial, with shortly ascending flowering branches, 
hoary with closely appressed hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves from 
obovate to linear-cuneate, coarsely toothed at the apex, 1—2 cm 
long, narrowed into a petiole. Peduncles axillary but only one to 
each pair of leaves and much longer than them, each one bearing 
a spike at first short and ovoid, and sometimes very small, at length 
cylindrical, and when luxuriant attaining 1—1,5 cm or oven more. 
Bracts closely imbricate, broadly spathulate, more or less fringed 
or toothed at the end, nearly 2'/, mm long. Calyx shorter than 
the bract, membranous, flat, divided in front nearly to the base, at 
the back to about the middle, into two keeled lobes, entire or 2-toothed 
at the apex. Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx, the lower 
lip twice as long as the upper one and about half as long as the 
tube. Fruit not one mm long, readily separating into two nuts, with 
one half of the calyx adhering to each. — Flow. October to April. 
M.ma. M.p. N.d. N.f. N.v. O. Frequently cultivated in gardens 
and subspontamous. 
Local name: bilevha (Ascherson); hashish-libaye (Ascherson) ; 
widney (Ascherson). 
Scattered in the Mediterranean region, Tropical and South Africa, 
Madagascar, and the warmer regions of Asia and America. 
460. (3.) Verbena Linn. 
Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, little changed in the fruiting 
stage. Corolla-tube subcylindrical, straight or curved; limb patent, 
subbilabiate, 5-lobed. Stamens usually 4, didynamous, included in 
the corolla-tube; filaments short, filiform; anther-cells parallel or 
slightly divergent. Ovary 4-celled; cells 1-ovuled; ovules attached 
laterally near the base of the cells; style usually short, 2-lobed at 
the apex. Fruit dry, oblong, about as long as the calyx-tube, 
separating into 4 narrow pyrenes. Seed erect, albuminous. — Herbs 
or undershrubs. Leaves usually opposite and toothed or more deeply 
cut. Inflorescence spicate; bracts solitary. Flowers small or medium- 
sized, inconspicuous or showy. 
Species about 80, mostly American. 
A. Annual. "eaves bipinnatiid’ Yrs ee 1. V. supina. 
B. Perennial. 
I. Leaves simply pinnatifid. .... . Sie one (Oe OW OL CHATS, 
PP sheaves! delply incised reer. He 3. V. bonariensis. 
