32 XCII. VERBENACER. 
truncate, the lobes more or less 2-lipped or nearly or quite equal, im- 
bricate in the bud, the upper lip or uppermost lobe or sometimes the 
lateral ones outside. Stamens inserted in the tube of the corolla, 
usually 4 in pairs or nearly equal and alternating with its lower lobes, 
or when the corolla is regular 4 to 8 alternating with its lobes. 
Anthers 2-celled, the cells opening longitudinally and usually parallel. 
Ovary not lobed or only shortly 4-lobed, usually more or less e 
divided into 2 or 4 cells or half-cells, with 1 ovule in each cell or ee 3 
solitary in each cell half-cell or pyrene, erect, with or without 
albumen, the testa usually membranous. Embryo straight, with thick | 
cotyledons and an inferior radicle.—Herbs shrubs trees or woody 
climbers. Leaves opposite whorled or rarely alternate, without stipules, 
entire toothed or divided. Inflorescence various. 
ery fe : 
diffused over the Old World, five are most numerously represented in tropical Asia and. 
Africa, but three of them are also American, and one of these extends in a single species 
0 Europe, one, isting chiefly of maritime plants, | 
as common in the New as in the Old World, and the remaining eleven genera are purely | 
endemic, with the exception of Faradaya, which is represente by a second species n 
the South Pacific Fe 
into the main tribes adopted by Schauer in the Prodromus, with some minor modi 
tions as to a few genera which had been imperfectly known or incorrectly described. 
Tre 1. Verbenew.— Ovules ascending from the base of the cells. Flowers in ro 
cemes or spikes sometimes contracted into heads, solitary within each bract, without | 
Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Spikes dense, usually 
0 into heads. 
Fruit a drupe i i 20401. DAXTAXA. 
Fruit dry, separating into small nuts. . ; . . . 2. LIPPIA. 
Ovary 4-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Spikes elongated . 3. VERBENA, 
