846 xcvi. VERBENACE^. [S'iphouanthitu 



to an inch long, pubescent-tomentose ; inflorescence consisting of 

 comparatively few-flowered lax leafy bracteate pubescent terminal 

 panicles narrowing towards the apex ; lower peduncles axillary, 

 3- to 1 -flowered, slender, spreading, 11 to '2\ in. long, the upper 

 ones successively shorter ; pedicels ranging up to 1^ in. long, 

 mostly shorter ; bracteoles narrow ; flowers violet-blue but less 

 brightly so than in *S'. myricoides ; calyx shortly campanulate, 

 ^ in. long, persistent, hairy outside, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes 

 obtuse or rounded ; coi-olla glabrous outside or nearly so ; the 

 tube about \ in. long and broad, ventricose ; the limb bilabiate, 

 about }r in. long ; the lobes laige, obovoid, rounded at the apex, 

 spreading ; the throat hairy ; stamens 4, far exserted, nearly 1| in. 

 long, somewhat unequal, glabrous, inserted at the top of the 

 corolla-throat ; style leaching about the same height, slender, 

 glabrous, bilobed at the apex; young fruit subglobose, about 

 i in. in diameter. 



Puxco Andongo. — In the primitive woods of Mata de Pungo ; fl. 

 and young fr. Feb. 1857. No. 5702. In bushy places at the outskirts 

 of primitive forests and in shady rocky places, rather rai'e ; fl. and 

 young fr. April 1857. No. 5701. In small primitive woods in the 

 prsesidium ; fl. April 1857. No. 5706. 



This species belongs to the section Cyclonema. 



14. S. dumalis Hiern, sp. n 



A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; branches subterete, pale brown, 

 glabrate, inconspicuously lenticellate ; branchlets softly pubescent- 

 tomentose, leafy at the extremities ; buds tomentose ; leaves 

 opposite, oval-obovate or elliptical, obtuse or pointed at the apex, 

 wedgeshaped at the base, lirmly herbaceous, closely beset with 

 short stift' pale hairs and minute glands especially beneath, entire 

 or nearly so, pale green, 1 to 1^ in. long by }t to ^ in. broad, the 

 floral ones smaller ; petioles ^ to ^ in. long ; inflorescence terminal 

 or sub-terminal, somewhat leafy and bracteate, rather lax, 2 to 

 4 in. long, hispid-tomentose, the primary branches patent, 

 brachiate; common peduncle -]- to 1^ in. long; pedicels ranging 

 up to }r in. long ; bracteoles spathulate or subulate ; flowers blue, 

 rather numerous ; calyx shortly and obliquely campanulate, 

 i to J in. long, minutely glandular and beset with short whitish 

 stiff hairs outside, smooth inside, shortly lobed ; lobes rounded at 

 the apex, imbricate at the base, ciliolate ; corolla-tube ^ ^o ^ in. 

 long, 1^ in. broad, oblique, ventricose, minutely glandular outside ; 

 limb sub-bilabiate, spreading, veiny, unequally 5-partite ; the 

 lobes oval or obovate, rounded at the apex, |^ to ^ in. long ; throat 

 shaggy, slit down one side ; stamens 4, subdidynamous, exserted ; 

 filaments glabrous above, shaggy at the base, inserted at the 

 bottom of the corolla-throat, f to |^ in. long ; anthers y\ in. long, 

 glabrous ; ovary glandular-sqnamulose ; style glabrous, equalling 

 or rather exceeding the stamens, cleft at the apex ; fruit quadrate- 

 globose, somewhat compressed, furrowed down the two sides, ~ in. 

 long and broad, \ in. thick, blackish. 



HuiLLA.— In thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; fr. Jan. 1860 ; 



