196 GAMOPETALOUS EXOGEXS 



ded. Style slender ; stigma obliquely capitate. Fruit 2-celled, 2- 

 eeeded. Flowers in axillary bracteolate pedunculate heads, or spikes. 



1. It. HOdifl>ra, MX. Procumbent and radicating; appressed- 

 hairy; leaves cuneate-ovate, serrate above, subsessile; spikes cap- 

 itate, 'solitary, on long slender peduncles. 

 Zapania nodiflora. Lam. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 604. 



KXOT-FLOWERIXG LlPPIA. 



Perennial? (annual, DC.} Stem 6 to 10 or 12 inches long, branching, obtusely 

 4-angled and striate-sulcate. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, varying from lanceolate 

 to cuneate-obovate, coarsely serrate above the middle, tapering below to a very 

 short petiole. Flowers closely imbricated with cuneate-ovate bracts, in conical or 

 roundish heads, on peduncles 1 to 3 inches long. Corolla bluish or purplish white, 

 the tube as long as the bracts. 

 Hob. Margin of Schuylkill : rare. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The L. citriodora, Kunih. (Verbena triptiylla, L'Herit.), a 

 shrubby species, native of South America, is often and deservedly 

 cultivated, for the delicious fragrance of its leaves. 



ORDER LXY. LABIATAE. 



Chiefly herbs; stems square; leaves simple, opposite, or sometimes verticillate, 

 generally aromatic; stipules none ; jtoivers in axillary cymules, or aggregated in 

 terminal spikes; corolla more or less bilabiate; anthrr-cdls parallel, or often 

 divaricate, sometimes separated by a long filiform connective, ; m-ary 4-lobed, Tic- 

 coming, in fruit, 4 little seed-like nutlets, surrounding the base of the style, in the 

 bottom of the persistent calyx ; each lobe, or nutlet, containing a single *w7. 

 with little or no albumen. An interesting and valuable Order, remarkable for 

 the aromatic fragrance, and stomachic properties, of many of the species. 



TRIBE 1. OCIMOPDEAE. 



Corolla sub-bilabiate; lobes of the upper lip flat; stamens declined, didynamou*. 

 the lower pair longer. 



2S2. O'CIMIiaf , L. 



[Supposed from the Or. ozn, to smell ; in reference to its fragrance.] 

 Calyx 5-cleft, the upper segment broad, orbicular-ovate. Corolla 

 with the upper Up 4-lobed, the lower lip scarcely longer, declined, 

 fiattish, entire. Stamens mostly exserted. Nutlets ovoid, often 

 minutely punctate. Flowers in terminal interrupted racemes. 

 1. 0. BASII/ICUM, L. Leaves ovaie-oblong, subdentate, smooth, with 

 ciliate petioles; calyx reflexed after flowering. 

 ROYAL OCIMUM. Sweet Basil. 



Annual Stem 6 to 12 inches high, often much branched. Leaves half an inch 

 to an inch long; petioles % to % of an inch in length. Bracts ovate, acuminate, 

 petiolate. Corolla bluish white. 

 Hob. Gardens. Nat. of India. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. Usually cultivated for culinary purposes. 



. UL,A, Tonrnef. 



[Latin, larare, to wash; the distilled water being used for that purpose.] 

 Calyx ribbed, ovoid-tubular, with 5 short teeth, the upper <>m> 

 sometimes dilated. Corolla with the upper lip 2-lobed, loiar /')< o- 



