eee eS eee eee 
Lippia.} XCII. VERBENACE JE. 35 
Prostrate or creeping perennial. Leaves obovate or cuneate. 
Peduncles in one axil of each pair. Calyx flat 1. L. nodiflora. 
Shrub with sap de branches. Leaves ovate. Peduncles oppo 
site. Calyxglobular . . . L. geminata. 
ghi nodiors, Ri ich ; Schau, in DC. Prod. xi. "s A prostrate 
into zx keeled lobes, entire or 2- ‘toothed at the E owes 
a ut half as long as the tube. Fruit not oneline long, 
sadly sopersiing into sas nuts, with one half of the calyx adhering to 
ach nodifiora, Lam. ; R. Br. Prod. 514. 
mum Victoria river, F.M ueller. 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay and d Broad Sound, R. Brown; Port Denison, 
Fitzalan ; ede À river, Thozet; Bowen river, Bowman ; Moreton Salai M'Gillivray. 
w. [urchison river, Oldfield. 
The ient is very common in wake eem on banks and in sandy places, &c., all 
over the warmer parts of the world. It is very variable in the — of the leaves, 
the size of the spikes and flowers, the npo and teeth of the bracts 
2. L. gemina ; Schau. in DC. P. xi 582. A strongly 
scented aem witht tong sg ling Dranches m more or less hirsute, the 
young shoots ofte P a s opposite or rarely in whorls of 
three, from broadly eed ovate- RE obtuse, Masi very rugose, 
to 1i i in. long when broad, longer when Peduncles 
tube 1} lines long, dilated pe prin: the lobes short broad and nearly 
equal. es separating into two n 
Queens About Rockhampton, Juno; and others. Probably Momm 
from South i i where it is eften common, ranging from Buenos Ayres s to M 
3. VERBENA. Linn. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla pius a distinct tube, the limb spreading, 
rather tet em AE -lobed. Stamens 4 or rarely 2, included in the 
be. Ovary 4-celled, with one Wer in each cell erect from the base. 
ruit not succulent, aoai in the calyx, sepa rating more or less 
readily into 4 1-seeded nuts. — Herbs or rarely ies Qn 
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