564 cxi. VERBENACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lippia. 



Lantana sp. n. 5, Herb. 2nd. Or. H.f. Sf T. Lantana canescens, Sort. Calc., 

 not Linn. 



BENGAL, frequent; below Dacca, J. Z>. H. t &c. DISTBIB. Trop. America, a 

 widely dispersed weed. 



So closely resembling Lantana indica that without fruit it is difficult to dis- 

 tinguish. Leaves and peduncles opposite or ternate. Peduncles rarely exceeding 

 ^-1 in. ; outer bracts rarely exceeding \ in. Fruit fc-fa in. diam. 



IY. BOUCHEA, Cham. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves petioled,' ovate or oblong, toothed. Spikes 

 terminal, linear, elongate; bracts much shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 narrowly cylindric, strongly 5-ribbed, very shortly 5-toothed, in fruit slightly 

 enlarged, split to the base on the outer side (in the Indian species). Corolla- 

 tube very narrowly cylindric ; limb patent, 5-lobed. Stamens included, 

 didynamous ; anthers ovate, cells 2 parallel. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-2- 

 ovuled; style short, linear; stigma 1- sided, toothed. Fruit dry, included in 

 the calyx, of 2 elongate-oblong 1-seeded pyrenes. Species 16, in the warmer 

 parts of America and Africa, 2 extending to India. 



1. B. marrubifolia, Schauer in DC* Prodr. xi. 558 ; hoary-pubescent, 

 leaves ovate, corolla-tube - in., mouth scarcely i in. diam. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1461. 



SCINDE ; Stocks, Dalzell. DISTEIB. Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Central Africa. 



Woody, much branched. Leaves 1 by \ in., coarsely toothed, hoary-pubescent 

 on both surfaces; petiole in. Spikes 2-5 in., nearly continuoxis; flowers alternate; 

 bracts ^ in., lanceolate. Calyx % in., subtruncate, inflated in fruit. Corolla-tube 

 scarcely ^j in. diam. Pyrenes - in., linear-oblong, black. 



2. B. hyderabadensis, Walp. Eep^ iv. 12; leaves ovate-oblong 

 glabrescent, corolla-tube - in. mouth ^ in. diam. Wight III. t. 173 b, 

 tig. 1, and Ic. t. 1462 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 559 ; Thwaites Enum. 241. 

 Verbena hyderabadensis, Heyne in Herb. Bottler ; Wall. Cat. 6318. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON; Rottler, Wight, Thwaites, &c. 



Branches woody, elongate little divided upwards, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-4 

 by 1 in., serrate, nerves beneath minutely pubescent ; petiole in. Spikes 2-6 in., 

 dense ; bracts in., lanceolate. Calyx | in., nearly glabrous ; teeth ^ in., linear. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped upwards ; limb pink-purple. Pyrenes exceeding in., 

 linear-oblong, slightly wider upwards, margined, straw-coloured, smooth on the inner 

 face (the thickened inner layer of tissue becoming white and flaking off). 



V. STACHYTARPHETA, Vahl. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves toothed. Spikes terminal, long, slender (in 

 the Indian species); bracts long or short; bracteoles 0. Calyx narrowly 

 cylindric, shortly 4-5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb oblique, patent, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 2 fertile, included; anther-cells ovate, vertically divaricate. 

 Ovary and fruit nearly as of o uchea.~ Species 40, in warm America. 



S. indica, Vahl Enum. i. 206 ; leaves elliptic serrate nearly glabrous, 

 flowers ultimately somewhat sunk in the thickened rachis, bracts lanceolate 

 as long as the oblique 4-toothed calyx. Thwaites Enum. 241. S. jamai- 

 censis, Vahl I. c. ; Bat. Mag. t.^1860. S. urticifolia, JDalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 Suppl. 68. Stachytarpha indica & jamaicensis, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 



