Verbena. | XCII. VERBENACEJE. 37 
The species is common in oe places and pastures in extratropical South America, 
and has spread as a weed of cultivation over South Africa, the Mauritius, and some other 
countries, and is evidently nach cai only into Australia. 
or terminal cymes or heads, or, if solitar axillary o 
"edi sia eae accompanied by two bracteoles esi és the 
€— bra 
In of the genera t this tribe the ovary is not pnm n - amm the 
incurred. ovalifer; rous margins - the carpellary leaves not meeting in at the 
ime of flower rin we m has in these cases been described by E = ere as one- 
SuBTRIBE 1. CHLOANTHEÆ. es notlobed. Fruit Rd » dry, t E 
The eeds have been observed in a few een me and these have shown 
a ids Pcia albumen. This character may not, however, be constant in the sub- 
tribe. The ten foll eth: PER OPE E all that strictly belong to the subtribe—are 
all endemic in ibti lia 
4. LACHNOSTACHYS, Hook. 
(Walcottia, F. Muell. Pycnolachne, Turcz.) 
Calyx broadly campanulate, 5- to 8-lobed, valvate in the bud, 
densely woolly outside, glabrous inside. Corolla shorter than the 
truncate or very shortly and equally 5- to 
exserted, opposite to the calyx-lobes, g^ 
Fruit enclosed in the calyx hard, usu 
abortion.— Erect shrubs dod with a dense cotton or wool ae 
of intricate branched hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, undivided. 
Flowers ed x sessile in dense terminal woolly s spikes. Brac 
often imbricate ows in the young spikes, but very deciduous ; 
bracteoles MGR i orn — 
The g s endemic in W. Australia. In the two species first ublished the disse- 
piment “ft the coho yi very thin, int readily breaks off fro m the walls of the cavity, and 
