VEEBENACEJE. 



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Fruit dry, the 'pvrenes easily separat- 

 ing. — A much-branched prostrate 

 perennial herb ..... 



Fruit of four 1-seeded pyrenes, calyx 

 tubular. — Herbs ••«•'• 



Inflorescence cymose, flowers opening centri- 

 fugally :— 



Fruit indehiscent, of one or four pyrenes :— 



Corolla regular ; stamens isoinerous, 

 equal ; leaves simple :— 



Calyx not enlarging in fruit, corolla 

 purple or red, drupe with four 1- 

 seeded pyrenes .... 



Calyx accrescent in fruit, corolla 

 white, drape with one 4-celled 

 pyrene ..... 



Corolla 2-lipped, stamens didynamous, 

 leaves simple or digitate : — 



Drupe with one 4-celled pyrene : — 

 Leaves simple, entire or toothel : — 

 Flowers large, up to 1 in. long 

 Flowers small .... 

 Leaves digitate .... 



Drape with four 1-seeded pyrenes, 

 leaves simple : - 



Calyx campanulate, limb truncate, 

 or 5-toothed or almost 5-partite 



Calyx rotate, widely patent, entire 

 or obscurely 5-lobed 



Fruit breaking up into four valves with one 

 pyrene attached to each valve. — Trees or 

 shrabs with simple leaves 



2. Lippia. 



3. Verbena. 



4. Callicarpa. 



5. Tectona. 



6. Gmelina. 



7. Premna. 



8. VlTEX. 



9. Clerodendron- 



10. HOLMSKIOLDIA. 



11. Caryoptekis. 



1. LANTANA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 562. 



Rambling or scandent shrubs, pubescent or scabrous ; branches 4- 

 angled, sometimes prickly. Leaves opposite, petioled, simple, erenate, 

 often rugose. Flowers in peduncled capitate ovoid or cylindric 

 spikes ; bracts conspicuous, longer than the calyx, bracteolcs none. 

 Calyx small, membranous, truncate or obscurely 4-o-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube slender, cylindric ; lobes 4-5, spreading. Stamens 



