60 PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 



each cell ; style simple, stigma entire or bifid ; fruit a two or four 

 celled drupe, or dry and splitting when ripe into two to four one- 

 seeded nutlets. 



This order contributes a few garden plants, notably varieties of 

 Verbena fT. chama'dnfoUaJ^ which present a great diversity of 

 coloiu'— Scarlet, Purijle, Lilac, and White. They are of very easy 

 culture, and remain in flower all the summer months ; the ribbed 

 calyxes are half an inch long, and the spike contracted so that the 

 clusters appear level toi^ped. Another species of Verbena (V. Bo- 

 nariensisj has rough, lanceolate, pointed leaves, clasping the stem, 

 margin armed Avitli spieading, spiny teeth ; spikes elongating to 

 three or four inches, arranged in threes ; flowers deep purple, shorter 

 than bracts. This species is also frequently met with as an escape 

 in neglected ground. The Lemon- scented Verbena fAIoysia citrio- 

 doraj lias insignificant flowers, but is cultivated for the delightful 

 fragrance of its bruised leaves. 



The so-called Pigeon-berry (Duranta PlmnieriJ is a native of the 

 Bahamas and Jamaica ; it is to be found in almost all shrubberies 

 and ornamental drives : a shrub or small tree six to twelve feet 

 high, bearing smooth, glossy leaves, which are oblong or ovate, 

 entire ; flowers blue in long, leafless racemes, which become pendu- 

 lous when bearing their wax-like, yellow berries, — they are about 

 the size of a pea. 



I. VEKBEXA. 



Herbs with opposite leaves, and Jloivers in spikes ; calyx five'Hbhed, 

 Jive-toothed, one tooth usually shorter than the others ; corolla five-lohed, 

 slightly unequal ; stamens four, rarely two, included in corolla-tube ; fruit 

 splitting when ripe into four one-seeded nutlets. 



1. V. urtictfolia. An erect, roughly pubescent, perennial herb, 

 two to three feet high, with long, slender branches and nettle-like 

 leaves ; the latter ovate or ovate lanceolate, acute, coarsely serrate, 

 base contracted into the petiole ; flowers small, sessile, distairt, 

 scattered along the slender, spreading branches of a compound 

 spike ; bracts rather shorter than the minute calyx. Distribution, 

 Nortli America and Jamaica ; habitat, waysides and waste places 

 aroimd Hamilton. Flowers one -sixth of an inch, pinkish -white ; 

 June to September. 



II. STACHYTAlirHA. 



Hcrb^ or shrubs, with opposite leaves and flowers sunk in cavities in the 

 elongated woody stem ; calyx two to four toothed; torolla-tube curved^ 

 limb with Jive ilightly Huequul lobes- ; stamens two ; fruit consisting of two 

 one-seeded nutlets. 



1. S. jamaieensis (Vervain). An annual, half -erect plant, one to 

 two feet high ; stems somewhat tufted and shrubby at the base, 

 sparingly liairy, often purplish ; leaves two to three inches long, 

 ovate, coarsely serrate, tapering at the base, veins purplish ; spikes 

 rod-like, compressed, naked, six to eighteen inches long ; flowers 

 deeply sunk and covered by a lanceolate, pointed bract ; calyx con;- 



