566 cxi. VERBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Verbena. 



V. spuria, Linn. Sp. PL 29. V. sororia, Don Prodr. 104 ; Sweet Brit. Fl. 

 G-ard. iii. t. 202. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 1-6000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, frequent. BENGAL PLAIN 

 to the Sunderbunds, frequent. DISTKIB. Temperate and subtropical regions. 



Stems 1-2 ft., decumbent, then erect, quadrangular, puberulous. Leaves 2-4 in., 

 variously lobed, base narrowed, lower petioled, more or less pubescent, usually hoary 

 on the nerves beneath. Spikes at first dense, in fruit 3-10 in. Calyx ^-^ in., 

 apparently of 4 oblong and 1 linear segments united into a tube by their scarious 

 margins; teeth most minute. Corolla in., blue ; lobes subquadrate, throat hairy. 

 Pyrenes ^-^g in., oblong, 3-ribbed, smooth dorsally, their inner faces with minute 

 white flaking cells similar to those of Bouchea hyderabadensv}. T. Thomson collected 

 at Kussoor, and Clarke at Chumba, a monstrous form with proliferous spikes, forming 

 densely branched panicles, the lower flowers all pedicelled, variously altered and 

 infertile. 



YITL GEUNSIA, Plume. 



Trees or large shrubs, stellately tomentose. Leaves opposite, every 

 alternate pair usually widely separated so that there appear to be 2 alternate 

 leaves on each internode, petioled, nearly entire. Cymes peduncled, axillary, 

 many-flowered; bracts linear, small. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-6- 

 toothed. Corolla tubular ; limb equally 5-6-toothed. Stamens 5 ; anthers 

 exserted ; cells oblong, parallel. Ovary imperfectly 5-3-celled ; cells 2- 

 ovuled; style exserted, stigma dilated 5-3-lobed. Drupe small; pyrenes 

 5-2, 1-seeded. Species 4, Malayan. 



Or. farinosa, Plume Pijd. 819 ; leaves broadly oblong acuminate 

 minutely toothed stellate-tomentose beneath, flowers 5-merous. Callicarpa 

 pentandra, Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 395; Wall Cat. 1835; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 646. C. acuminatissima, Teijs. &[ Pinn. in Patav. Nat. Tidschr. xxv. 

 316. 



SINGAPOEE ; Wallich. DiSTRiB. Malaya. 



A lofty tree. Leaves 8 by 3 in., base cuneate or rounded, mature glabrate above; 

 petiole 1 in. Peduncles 1-2 in.; cymes 2-3 in. diam., densely stellate-tomentose. 

 Corolla | in., lilac, occasionally 6-merous, fide Teijs. & Binnend. Drupe ^ in. diam. 

 Resembling the arborescent Callicarpas', readily distinguished by the mixture of 

 both opposite and alternate leaves, and by the 5-merous flowers. C. hexandra, Teijs. 

 & Biun. 1. c.) is C. Cumingiana, Schauer I. c. 644, or very nearly so, and perhaps 

 neither is distinct from Geunsia farinosa; b\Tt Cuming's n. 1773, reduced to G. 

 farinosa by Schauer, is probably, as stated in Gen. PI. 2, p. 1150, a good species. 



IX. CALLICARPA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees ; innovations stellately hairy. Leaves opposite, rarely 

 ternately, whorled toothed or subentire (in C. lobata lobed). Cymes axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracts linear, inconspicuous. Calyx very small 

 (less than in.), campanulate, limb minutely 4-lobed, unaltered in fruit. 

 Corolla small (about in.), tubular, subsymmetric, purple or red ; lobes 4, 

 subquadrate-oblong, patent. Stamens 4; anthers exserted, 2-celled, glan- 

 dular. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; style linear, stigma 

 dilated obscurely bifid. Drupe small (less than in.), globose ; pyrenes 4, 

 or by suppression fewer, 1-seeded. Seeds shortly oblong, exalbuminous. 

 Species 30, mostly E. Asian, Malayan and N. Australian ; a few Polynesian, 

 Columbian and W. Indian. 



1. C. lobata, Clarice ; leaves very long-petioled ample cordate-ovate 



