Victorian Plants. 



VERBENACEAE. 



AVICENNIA. 



1731. Lobes of the corolla above glabrous. 



Tall shrub, finally arborescent ; leaves from ovate- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, of very thick texture, very pale be- 

 neath ; flowers capitular-crowded, on robust stalks ; 

 corolla firm, its lobes ovate-lanceolar, reddish-yellow 

 above ; stigmas sessile ; fruit from ellipsoid- to roundish- 

 ovate, from a very thin vestiture greyish outside ; seed 

 solitary, soon free from its integument, germinating 

 before dropping. A. offi.cin.alis. 



CXXX.OANTXXES. 



1732. Leaves decurrent on the branchlets, much wrinkled 



above, recurved along the margin. 



Finally rather tall, invested with crisped hairlets ; leaves 

 simply opposite, of soft texture, from lanceolar- to broad- 

 linear, rough above ; flowers solitary, mostly axillary, 

 on very short stalklets ; calyx deeply cleft ; corolla 

 bluish, dark-dotted, its tube comparatively short but 

 rather wide, orifice beset with conspicuous hairlets ; 

 fruit turgid, tardily seceding into halves, with a cavity 

 between the cells. C. parviflora. 



VEKBENA. 



1733. Spikes extremely slender. 



Perennial, erect, imperfectly beset with appressed minute 

 but rigid hairlets ; lower leaves mostly cuneate-obovate, 

 irregularly indented ; upper leaves from rhomboid to 

 lanceolar in outline, incised or pinnatilobed and also 

 partly indented ; spikes soon elongated ; bracts minute ; 

 flowers quite small ; calyx denticulated ; corolla upwards 

 pale-pink or lilac-colored, the lobes through the union of 

 the two upper almost equal ; stamens four, enclosed ; 

 fruitlets dry. "Vervain." V. officinalis. 



1VI YOP ORINAE. 

 miropoxtuar. 



1734. Fruit very turgid, three- or more-celled 1735 



Fruit quite compressed, two-celled ... ... ... 1740 



