810 Verbenaceae. 
1135. (1.) Verbena supina L. Spec. Plant. 1 (1753), p. 29. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.119 no. 810. — Boiss. Flor Or. IV, 
p. 534. — Schauer in DC. Prodrom. XI, p. 548. — Sibth. and Smith 
Flor. Graec., tab. 554. — Rehbch. Ice. XVIL, tab. 91 fig. 1. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p. 661 no. 241..—. Verbena pro- 
cumbens Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p.113. — Annual, densely pubes- 
cent. Stems much-branched from the base. Leaves deltoid, cuneate 
at the base, bipinnatifid; final segments oblong. Spikes at first 
dense; lower bracts lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Calyx 0,3 mm 
long; teeth minute. Corolla lilac; tube twice as long as the calyx; 
limb 0,3 mm diam. Capsule as long as the calyx. — Flow. December 
to April. ' 
M. ma. Marmarica; Umm Rakum; Alexandria-West and- East; 
Mandara; Abukir. — N.d. N. f. N. v. Everywhere common in field 
and along the Nile and the irrigation canals. — O. Dakhel.. 
Local name: morreyq (Ehrenberg); hend-el-ghorab (G. Roth). 
Spread through all parts of the Mediterranean region and South Eastern 
Europe. 
1136. (2.) Verbena officinalis L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 29. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@’Eg., p. 119 no. 809. — Boiss. Flor. 
Or. IV, p.534. — Rechbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 91 fig. 2. — Schauer in 
DC. Prodrom. XJ, p. 547. — An erect perennial 30—60 em high, 
with long spreading wiry branches, sometimes nearly glabrous, usually 
with closely appressed hairs, sometimes more coarsely hirsute, or 
the inflorescence rough with glandular hairs. Lower leaves petiolate, 
obovate or oblong, coarsely toothed or cut; upper ones either deeply 
pinnatifid and lobed or toothed, or the uppermost small and lanceolate. 
Flowers usually very small, in slender spikes lengthening often to 
10 or 20 cm, the lower ones becoming distant as the spike lengthens, 
the whole lilac corolla sometimes not 5 mm long, but in the larger- 
flowered forms the tube about 27/, mm and the lower lip about as 
long. — Flow. October to April. 
N. d. N.f. O. A common weed throughout the region. 
Local name: hend-el-ghorab. 
The species is common in a great part of Europe and temperate Asia, 
more rare and perhaps introduced in North America, South Africa ‘and 
within the Tropics. 
1137. (3.) Verbena bonariensis L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 28. 
— Hook. Bot. Mise. II, p. 166. — Verbena quadrangularis Vell. Flor. 
Flum. I, tab. 39. — Stems erect, simple or branched in the lower 
part, tetragonous, scabrididulous, hispid, villous, aphyllous in 
