340 VERBENACEAE. { Verbena. 
serted in the tube of the corolla and alternating with its lower lobes. Ovary 
not lobed, usually 2- or 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Style terminal, 
entire or with 2 stigmatic lobes. Fruit dry or succulent, separating into 
2 or 4 cocci, or indehiscent. Seed without any or with a small quantity 
of albumen. Embryo straight, with thick cotyledons. — Herbs, shrubs, 
trees or climbers. Leaves usually opposite or whorled, without stipules. 
Inflorescence various. 
A large cosmopolitan abet sg tropical. Cultivated speci es: Tectonia — 
the Teak tree, Duranta Plumier , Gmelina Asiatica, A hace ia citriodora, H. B. & 
Petrea volubilis, Jacq., and one or ees cule f Callie 
mesma indeterminate, centripetal, in racemes, enh or heads; ovules 
it vg separating into small nuts or cocci: 
Fertile stamens 4: 
it of 4 —_— > parent 
Fruit of 2 nutlet <i ee 
Fertile stamens 2; ‘seein lodged in furrows of the rhachis . a Stachytarpheta 
ta y : 
Inflorescence determi: nate, centrifugal, in. panic les, “cymes or heads; 
frui pi ah sing cou es pendulous or laterally a wo, sg d: 
Lower lobe of the corolla much longer than the o ‘ 5. Vitex. 
obes of the corolla nearly equal . 6. Clerodendron. 
1. VERBENA, L. 
Calyx 5- tes 1 tooth ciesiadly shorter than the others. Corolla with 
a distinct tube and a rather unequal 5-lobed limb. Stamens 4, all fertile, 
included. stl 2-lobed, with 1 stigma abortive. Ovary 4-celled; ovules 
erect. F - eueoeal | in the calyx, separating into 4 nutlets. — Herbs, 
asery hae with small flowers in terminal spikes. 
om rei American genus, with two species spread over the warmer regions of the Old 
or. 
#1. V. Bonariensis, LZ. — DC. Prod. XI, 541. — An erect perennial, 
several feet high, the stem tetragonous, scabrous and hispid, distantly 
foliose, naked above. Leaves opposite, about 3’ long, broadly lanceolate, 
distantly inciso-serrate from the middle, shortly stipitate or auricled and 
slightly clasping at the base, scab bo es. Panicle cymose, 
elongate, the spikelike branches densely flowered, n at the base- 
- Flowers sessile, mostly single, bractlets as long as the put 
bescent calyx. 
, yx tubular, 1“, with sharp teeth. Corolla 2”, W! 
slender tube hens short limb, lilac 
«Oi», a lone s weed of early introduction which has op 
root in a parts of the Islands, most so on the hightonde of Waimea, Hawaii, W 
large extents of pasture land have been ruined b: hich 
aegis and more. — A native of the La Plata region and southern Brazil, but W 
southern Africa, aces gral the Canary Islan o 
If I remember niente V. ab samara L., also oce weed near ae but 
specimen has been It isa a smaller plant with “pinnatifid leaves 
