36 XCII. VERBENACEJE. | Verbena, 
opposite, entire or divided. Flowers small, alternate, in simple or 
branched T es, each one in the axi of a small bract without 
bracteoles 
The genus comprises alarge number of American pe with only two o s 
the warmer oe of the Old M "ire one es Australian ones; the oth 
erated is an intr 
Leaves mostly doi lobed or divided. Spikes ee and Slade, 
with di 
owers . V. officinalis. 
£n narrow, toothed. -Spikes rather close, in a MILI , 
cluster or panicle 2. V. bonariensis. 
cinalis, Linn. ; Schau. rites Pro d. x Mesi An erect 
upper ones either deen pinnatifid and lobed or toothed, or the upper- 
most small and lanceolate. Flowers "ERR very small, in coming 
s ensland. Broad Sound and Shoalwater ic R. Brown; Rockingham Bay, 
Da Y 4 ; Suttor river, Bowman ; Armadilla, Barton 
. S. Wale Port Jackson, R. Brown; Blue mountains, Miss Atkinson; Cla- 
renee Med Beckler ; Richmond river, Fawcett; Darling river, Victorian and other 
- itions. 
Victoria. Port Phillip, F. Mueller; Melbourne, Robertson ; Portland, Allitt; 
kr ow Whan. 
Australi Teen eism Blandowski; towards — 8 pA Warburton. 
species is common in a great part of Europe and tem mperate Asia, in waste re 
on tone ides, &c. ; peti rare and erhape introduced int o North Maries: "South A 
and within the tropics. It may also be introduced odiy into some of the pee 
— 
Var. macrostac. d» Flowers rather larger, and the spikes very glandular, hirsute.— 
qune macrostachya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 60.—Peak Downs, F. Mu eller ; Rockhampton, 
bonariensis, Linn.; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi An 
M yis rigid herb of 2 to 4 ft., the stems scarcel branched 
angled p roughly hispid especially on the an Ais 
pecus iiec r the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, 13 e nearly 3 in. : 
ong, coarsely jouet hirsute, the peer ones distant small and 
narr 
panicle, and’ ey pane a bei T hue. Bracts acute, 
spre 
mei Brisbane river, Moreton Pay, F. Mue P1 
river, Beckler. es. Near Sydney, F. Mueller ; New com C. Stuart; Hastings : 
e ei the lobes broad and | 
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