OKDEB 89. LABIATE 539 



mnnel-form, the tube long-exserted ; limb oblique, sublabiate, upper lip 

 bifid or entire, lower trifid ; stam. didynaraous, included, inserted in the 

 cor. tube; drupe fleshy, double, the parts separable, 1-seeded. Tropi- 

 cal shrubs with square stems, opposite leaves, and capitate, showy 

 flowers. 



1 L. Camara L. Branches and ped. scabrous-pubescent, often aculeate; hv 

 ovate and ovate-oblong, or subcordate, short-petiolate, serrate ; reticulate-rugout.* 

 scabrous ; ped. many, dense-flowered, subumbellate, as long as the leaves ; bracts 

 lance-linear, half as long as the corolla. S. Ga., Fla. to La., and S. to Brazil. 

 Shrub 2 to 6f high. Fls. at first golden yellow, soon becoming orange and finally 

 " red. Drupes small, blue. Jn. Aug. (L. Bartramii Baldw.) f 



2 L. mixta L. Plant pilous-hirsute, with wide-spread branches, mostly armed 

 with reversed prickles ; Ivs. shaped as in No. 1 ; ped. longer than the leaves ; bract-; 

 linear-lanceolate, hairy, the outer as long as the corolla. Greenhouse shrub 

 3 to 4f high. Fls. at first whitish, then yellow, next orange, lastly reel f 



6. ALOYS'IA, Ortega & Palan. (To Mary Louisa, queen of Spain, 

 mother of Ferdinand.) Calyx deeply 4-cleft; corolla tubular, limb 4- 

 lobed, oblique; stam. didynamous, included; capsule double, parts 1- 

 seeded ; stig. emarginate. Shrubs with the small fls. in a panicle of 

 i-pikes or racemes. From S. Am. (Lippia, Schauer.) 



A. citriodora Kunth. LEMON-SCEXTED ALOTSIA. Smooth or the branches 

 roughish ; Ivs. verticil, in 3s and 4s, linear-lanceolate, short-petioled, acute at 

 each end, mostly entire, glandular-punctate beneath, coriaceous, with divaricate, 

 straight veinlets ; panicle terminal, naked or leafy below. Gardens, cult, for its 

 delightful fragrance which is exhaled by the numerous small fls. as well as the 

 bruised leaves, f Paraguay.' 



7. CLERODEN'DRUM, L. (Gr. itXrjpo$, chance, devdpov, a tree ; re- 

 ferring to its doubtful medicinal effects.) Cal. bell-shaped, 5-toothed ; 

 cor. salver-form, tube often elongated, limb subequally 5-cleft ; drupe 

 baccate, 4-carpeled, carpels, 1-seeded. Tropical shrubs or trees, with 

 opposite leaves and fls. in cymes. 



1 C. paniculatum L. Lvs. long-petioled, cordate-hastate, 5 to 7-lobed, lobes 

 acute ; panicle of cymes terminal, large, pyramidal ; cor. tube slender, 4 times 

 longer than the calyx. Shrub with ample leaves and scarlet (6" long) corollas. 

 f Asia. 



2 C. squamatum VahL Lvs. roundish, deeply reniform-cordate, lobes acumi- 

 nate, repand-dentate ; pyramidal panicle terminal, loose, wholly colored. Shrub 

 8 to lOf high. Fls. scarlet. Stam. long-exserted. Cor. limb revolute. f Japan. 

 Other species are rarely cult. 



8. VITEX, L. CHASTE -TREE. Calyx 5-toothed ; cor. cup-shaped, 

 limb 5-lobed ; bilabiate ; stem, didynamous, ascending, exserted ; drupe 

 entire, 4-celled, 4-seeded. Shrubs with opposite, mostly digittate leaves, 

 and paniculate cymes. 



1 V. Negiindo. Leaves long-petiolate, digitately ternate or quiuate, Ifts. ob- 

 long, acuminate, serrate ; panicle compound. Shrub 4f high. Cor. purple, pulver- 

 ulent. Stam. little exserted. ( Mauritius. 



2 V Agnus-castus L. Lvs. long-petioled, 5 7-foliate; Ifts. lanceolate, 

 acuminate, entire ; panicles terminal and axillary, interrupted ; cymes subses- 

 sile. Shrub Gf high. Cor. pale, lilac. Stam> long oxserted. f S. Eur. 



ORDER LXXXIX. LABIATE. LABIATE PLANTS. 



Herbs with square stems and opposite, aromatic, exstipulato leaves. Flowers 

 Axillary, in verticillasters, sometimes as if spiked or in heads. Corolla labiate 



