2H(; CI. VERBENACE.E (baker). [VeQ-be7iu. 



7. VERBENA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. lUG. 



Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, little changed in the fruiting 

 sta^^e. Corolla-tube subcylindrical, straight or curved ; limb patent, 

 subbilabiate, o-lobed. Stamens usually 4, didynamous, included in the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments short, filiform ; anther-cells parallel or slightly 

 divergent. Ovary 4-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; ovules attached laterally- 

 near the base of the cells ; style usually short, 2-lobed at the apex. 

 Fruit dry, oblong, about as long as the calyx-tube, separating into 

 4 narrow pyrenes. Seed erect, albuminous. — Herbs or undershrubs. 

 Leaves usually opposite and toothed or more deeply cut. Infiore.^ctnce 

 spicate; bracts solitary. Flowers small or medium-sized, inconspicuous 

 or showy. 



Species about HO, mostly American. 



Annual. Leaves 'bipinnatifid 1. V. siqnna. 



l*e)»'unii\l. Leaves simply pinnatifid . . .2. 7". officinalis. 



1. V. supina, Linn. ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 54S. Annual, 

 densely pubescent. Stems much-branched from the base. Leaves 

 deltoid, cuneate at the base, bipinnatifid j final segments oblong. 

 Spikes at first dense ; lower bracts lanceolate, as long as the calyx. 

 Calyx j^2- i'^- ^^"8 ' teeth minute. Corolla lilac ; tube twice as long as 

 the calyx ; limb ^V in. diam. Capsule as long as the calyx. — Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop'. 120; Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Grsec. t. 554. 



wile Ziand. Nubia, JEhrenherg, Khartum, Kotschy, 323 ! Schtoeinfurth.^ 878 ! 

 Kordofan : near Sodari, Pfund, 180! Upper Sennar: Kazokl, Cienkotosky, Kotschy, 265 ! 

 Spread through the Mediterranean region. 



2. V. officinalis, Linn. ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 547. Perennial, 

 Stems erect, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, sub- 

 glabrous, usually deeply pinnatifid. Spikes very lax and slender, 

 forming a terminal panicle ; bracts lanceolate, the lower as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx ^V in. long; teeth minute. Corolla lilac; tube twice as 

 long as the calyx ; limb J in. diam. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 1G5; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 120; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr.':^>55; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 565; Franchet, 

 Sert. Somal. 50 ; Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 337. 



Ifflle Xiand. Eritrea : Habab, Hildehrandt, 445, Haiihello Kokob, at the north 

 of Acrur, 5200 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1116 ! Ainsaba, SteuJner, 1304 ! Abyssinia : 

 near Adowa, Schimper, 14b I near Addi Abun, Sckimper, 7; near Delhi Dikeno, 

 Schimper, 284 ; Shire, Quartin-DiUon ; and at Godofelassi. Rohlfs Sf Steker. Sennar, 

 Cienkowsky. British East Africa : Uuwenzori ; Wimi Valley, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 

 7800! Somaliland, Revoil. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Karagvi^e ; Buboba (ex Giirke) : 

 Usmawo ; Kageyi on Lake Victoria (ex Oilrke). 



Spread through the north temperate zone in the Old World, and extending to 

 South Africa, introduced in America. 



V. honariensis, Linn., Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 541, with deeply incised scabrous 



