2. LiPPiA.] 105. VERBENACEJ^. 



lobed. Stamens 4 didynamous. Ovary 2-celled (formed of one 

 carpel). Ovule one in each cell. Fruit dry, small, and included in 

 the calyx, Avith hard pericarp and 2, 1 -seeded, easily separable 

 pyrenes. 



Flowers in dense spikes or capitula with persistent bracts :— 



Shrub with aromatic leaves \. gemimtta. 



Creeping- herb with cuneate-spathulate serrate leaves . . .2. nodiflora. 

 Flowers in lax panicled spikes with caducous bracts :— 



Sweetly lemon-scented shrub. Cultivated 3. citriodora. 



1. L. geminata, H.B. Sf Kunth. Naga-aieri, Or. ; Wild Sage (of 



English denizens). 



A gregarious shrub with numerous erect weak scarcely angled hairy 

 branches 3-5 ft. high and also long procumbent ones, and aromatic, 

 mostly lanceolate or oblong, closely crenulate or crenate-serrate 

 leaves 1 5-2' 5" long with impressed nerves and thinly hairy and 

 punctate above. Flowers pink, scented, in capitate spikes "3" long 

 elongating to •?", rarely to -75" on axillary peduncles -S-'S", very 

 rarely 1" long (under shade). Bracts ovate acuminate white- villous 

 at the edges, lowest '2 --3" long. Fruit -08" diam., globose Avith 

 svib-succulent green pericarp when unripe, ultimately dry and splitting: 

 into 2 pyrenes. 



Along- muddj- river Ijanks and wet places. Very common in the eastern district& 

 of the Northern Tract ! Along- the Ganges at Baukipur, etc. ! Rivers on the 

 Ranchi plateau ! Sand-dunes and mud-banks, Balasore ! Puri ! Fl., Fr. March- 

 Dec. 



Branches with numerous minute glands and spreading hairs. L. rarely ovat& 

 or suddenly cuneate on petiole (cp- Lanfana indicu), usually narrow with gradually 

 tapering or cuneate base, somewhat hoary beneath, teeth 1-3 to "l"; sec. n. 6-7 

 conspicuous beneath with many intermediate, villous. Petiole •2-"5". Bracts 

 closely hairy. Calyx of 2 oblong- obtuse concave silky lateral lobes, free on the 

 anterior face, slightly connate at base above. Corolla hairy, tube -2", throat yellow, 

 limb "15" from back' to front, upper lij) with 2 small rounded lobes much shorter 

 than the lower lip, which has a shovel-shaped blade. 



" Used as sage in cookery." Tweedie, 



2. L. nodiflora, Fdcli. 



A prostrate herb with opposite cuneate-obovate serrate obtuse 

 leaves "5-1" long and axillary peduncled bracteate heads of small 

 white flowers. Fruit 08" diam. of 2 pyrenes, embraced by the two-fid 

 calyx and bracts. 



A weed of wet ground, probably occurring in most districts. Darbhanga, Cal. 

 Herb.l Singbhum ! Balasore! Puri! Fl., Fr. practically all the year round. 



Strigose with short hairs. L. with few appressed hairs ])eneath, sec. n. obscure, 

 petiole hardly any. Peduncles -25-3" long. Heads •12--25" diam., at first very 

 short, finally elongating to "S-'S". Bracts obovate or sub-orbicular, shortly 

 acuminate. Calyx 2-fid, shortly pubescent. Corolla "l" long, sub-2-lii3ped with 5 

 short lobes, lowest largest, 2 upper smallest. Style short, stigma oblique. 



3. L. citriodora, Kunth., 



is the well-known Lemon-scented Verbena (Syn. Aloysia citriodora, Ort), of 

 horticulturalists. Leaves and panicled spikes and fls. ternate. 

 Native of South America, 



3. STACHYTARPHETA, VaU. 



Shrvibs or herbs with toothed leaves and rather small flowers in 

 long slender terminal bracteate spikes. Bracteoles 0. Calyx tubular, 



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