282 CI. VERBENACE.« (baker). [J^ovcheci. 



toothed. Inflorescence a long spike, each flower in the axil of a per- 

 sistent brjict. 



Species about 16; in liidia. Tropical America and several at the Cape. 

 Calyx-teetli small. 

 Leaves petioled. 



Capsule winged at the ;'pe.\ . . . . . 1. B. pieryrfocarpa. 



C:»psule not winged at the apex. 



Leaves pubescent, crenate . . . . 2. B. ma rruhii folia. 



Leaves glabrous, pinnatitid . . . . 3. jB. garepensis. 



Leaves sessile . . . . . . . . 4. J5. sessilifolia. 



Calyx-teeth large . . . . . . . b. B. Hannlngtoni. 



1. B. pterygocarpa, Schaver in DC. Prod. xi. 558. A much- 

 branched perennial herb. Stems clothed with short white pubescence. 

 Leaves ovate, obtuse, deeply toothed, 1 — Ij in. long, cuneate or sub- 

 truncate at the base, pubescent on both sides ; petiole J in. long. End 

 spikes 6-1) in. long, moderately dense, with all the flowers finally 

 ad pressed to the pubescent rhachis ; bracts lanceolate, much shorter 

 than the calyx. Calyx cylindrical, finely pubescent, J-J in. long ; teeth 

 very minute. Corolla-tube about J in. long ; limb J in. diam. Capsule 

 linear-oblong, shorter than the calyx, with 2 pyrenes ending in an 

 obtuse wing. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 166. 



Nile Iiand. Nubia, Benf ! Kordofan : Kohn Mountain, Kotschy, 230, Melbes, 

 Pfund, 852 1 Abyssinia: Tigre ; on hills near Adeganna, Schimper, 1012! mountains 

 near (Joelleb, 4000 ft., ScJdmper, 2210 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 424. 



Mozamb. I>lst. (lerman East Africa : Usambara ; on the Steppe by the 

 Pangani Kiver, Volkena, 450! 



2. B. marrubiifolia, Schaner in DC. Prod. xi. 558. A much- 

 branched perennial herb. Stems clothed with short white pubescence. 

 Leaves ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, conspicuously crenate, pube^c•ent 

 on both sides, l-lh in. long, cuneate or subtruncate at the entire base ; 

 petiole i-l in. long. End-spikes J ft. long, moderately dense, with 

 all the flowers adpressed to the pubescent rhachis ; bracts lanceolate, 

 much shorter than the calyx. Calyx |-^ in. long, densely and shortly 

 pubescent; teeth very minute. Corolla-tube very slender, V in. long ; 

 limb ^ in. diam. Capsule shorter than the calyx, the pyrenes not 

 produced into a wing at the apex. — C. 13. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. iv. ^){\-^. 



KTlle Xtand. Nubia: near Suakin at Hor Tamanib, Lord, 12! between Suakin 

 and Berber, at Okurr, Schiceinfurfh, 40(5! and \Vadi Abu-Kotod, Schweinfurth, 151 ! 

 Kordofan : near Abu (lerad, Kofschy, 32 ! Wadi Taiarab, Pfund, 850 ! Om Marba, 

 Pfund, 172 ! and without precise locality, Koischy, 113! 213 ! 



Also in Arabia and Scinde. 



3. B. garepensis, Schemer in DC. Prod. xi. 560, .vai-. xnicro- 

 phylla, O. Kuntze in Jahrh. KUnlgl. bot. Gart. Perl. iv. 271. A glabrous 

 erect perennial herb. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, ^ in. long, deeply 

 piunatifid. Racemes 1 or few, dense, terminal, cylindrical, ^-1 ft. 



