105. VERBENACEJE. 



1. A. ilicifolius, L. Harkanchi, Or. ; Harkat, Beng. 



A very handsome small shrub 2-5 ft. high, Avith holly-like spinous 

 rigid shining leaves mostly 2-4" long and beautiful sky-blue flowers 

 1-5-2" long in terminal spikes 3-6" long or more. Capsule 1-1-5". 



Maritime marshes and ditcbes along the Orissa coast. Balasore ! Mahanadi 

 delta, Cuttack ! Fl., Fr. April-June (perhaps also at other times). 



L. suhsessile, oblong, slightly contracted at base, sec. n. running out into sriiues. 

 Bracts ovate, "^--.d'', spinous-tipped, bracteoles similar but rather smaller. Large 

 anterior sepal "7", nerves sometimes excurrent as two teeth. Lip oblong-elliptic 

 entire, pubescent within. Anthers '^-b" long, very shaggy. 



The seedlings of this plant have linear entire leaves. 



2. A. leucostachyus, Wall. 



A stout herl) 1-2 ft. high with somewhat decumbent woolly stems 

 and short-petioled oblong serrate and spinulose-serrate leaves 4-8" 

 long and terminal hairy spikes of pale purjjle or white flowers about 

 1" long (-7", F.B.I.). 



I have found this plant in wet ground in evergreen forest in the Jalpaiguri 

 district and it maj^ therefore occur in Purneah. Fl. March. 



3. A. Yolubilis, Wall. 



This has not been found in our area, but very probably occurs in the Mahanadi 

 delta. It occurs in the Suuderbans twining among reeds (Prain). 



FAM. 105. YERBENACE^. 



Trees, shrubs or more rax'ely herbs, sometimes scandent by means 

 of their sarmentose shoots, often foetid or aromatic from minute 

 glands, frequently Avith forked or stellate hairs. Leaves opposite or 

 sometimes whorled, simple or rarely {Vitex) digitate, exstipulate. 

 Flowers zygomorphic or sub-regular, small or mod.-sized, often shoAvy, 

 in variously formed inflorescences. Calyx gamo-sepalov\s, persistent 

 and often accrescent, sometimes 2-lipped, rarely truncate, usually 4-5 

 lobed or -toothed (6-8-toothed in Symphorema). Corolla usu.ally 

 2-lipped and 5-lobed, or two posterior lobes connate into one, some- 

 times subregular (many-lobed in Symjphorema). Stamens usually 4, 

 rarely 2 or (Symphorema) more than 4. Ovary of 2 or (Duranta) 4 

 connate carpels and 2-celled, or more usually each cayjjel divided more 

 or less completely by a dissepiment into 2 cells, rarely only 1- 

 carpellary by suppression or 2-carpellary with a free or nearly free 

 central 4- winged column {Avicennia) ; never deeply divided as in the 

 Lahiatse. Style usually slender with a 2-fid stigma. Ovules 2 to each 

 carpel, usually laterally affixed to the infolded Avails, more rarely near 

 the base or pendulous from the apex (betAveen the Avings of the central 

 column in Avicennia), micropyle alAvays inferior. Fruit usually 

 drupaceous Avith a 4 (1 by suppression) -celled stone or 4-1 pyrenes 

 or partially connate drupels, more rarely quite dry, rai-ely 4- or 2- 

 valved. Seeds as many as the oviiles or fcAver, exalbuminous in our 

 genera. 



The germination is epigeal in all cases observed, the cotyledons usuallj' broadly 

 oblong. 



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