340 VERVAIN FAMILY. 



contains a single 4-celled stone. Flowers in cymes or clusters in the axils of the 

 compound digitate leaves, or of the upper leaves reduced to bracts ; shrubs or trees. 

 7. CLERODEXDKOX. Caly.x bell-form or tubular. 5-toothed. Corolla tube slender and 

 cylindrical, straight or curved ; limb spreading or somewhat reflexed, 5 lobes unequal 

 in size or position. Stamens 4, and inserted on the thi-oat of the corolla, long-exserled. 

 Ovary imperfectly 4-ceIled, the cells 1-ovuled. Style elongated and 2-lobed. Shrubs, 

 eretl or climbing, the leaves entire or rarely dentate. 



1. PHRYMA, LOPSEED. (Name of unknown meaning.) One 

 species. 



P. LeptosteLchya, Linn. Copses, etc.; 2°-3° high, with coarsely- 

 toothed, ovate, thin leaves, and branches terminated by the slender 

 splices of very small purplish flowers, in summer, the pedicels reflexed in 

 fruit. 11 



2. L ANT AN A. (Origin of name olDscure.) Tropical or subtropical, 

 mostly shrubby plants, planted out in summer, when they flower freely 

 until frost comes ; stems often rough-prickly ; herbage and flowers 

 odorous, in some pleasant, others not so. The species are much mixed. 



L. Camara, Linn. Flowers deep yellow, turning first to orange, then 

 to red ; plant scabrous or hirsute, usually prickly ; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 oblong ; head flat-topped. Ga., S., and cult. 



L. mixta, Linn. Brazil; has flowers opening white, soon changing to 

 yellow, orange, and finally to red. 



L. nivea, Vent. Brazil; has the pleasant-scented flowers white and 

 unchanging ; or, in var. mut.vbius, changing to blui.sh. 



L. involucrata, Linn. West Indies ; has small obovate and prominently 

 veiny leaves, more or less downy beneath, and heads of lilac-purple 

 flowers, involucrate by the outer bracts. 



L. Sellowiana, Link & Otto. Low and spreading, with wedge-oblong or 

 ovate, strongly veined leaves, long peduncles, and heads of reddish-purple 

 flowers lengthening somewhat with age. Southern Brazil. 



3. LIPPIA. (Named for A. Lippi, an Italian botanist.) Flowers late 

 summer. 



L. lanceolata, Michx. Fog Frtjit. A creeping weedy herb, along 

 river banks from Penn., S. and W., with wedge-spatulate or oblanceolate 

 lerves serrate above the middle, and slender peduncles from the axils 

 bearing a head of bluish small flowers. 



L. citrioddra, HBK. (or Aloysia), the Lkmox-sckntki) or Swkkt 

 Veube\.\ of the gardens ; .shrub from Ohile, with whorls of linear-lance- 

 olate fragrant leaves, roughish with glandular dots, and small whitish and 

 bluish flowers in slender .spikes. 



4. VERBENA, VERVAIN. (Latin name of some sacred herbs.) 

 P^lowers all summer. Genus of difficult analysis on account of numer- 

 ous hybrids, both wfld and in cultivation. 



* Vervains, native to the country, or groicing as loihl weeds, mostly in 

 waste or cultivated ground; the flowers insignificant, in slender spikes, 

 no appendage at tip of the anthers. 



■*- Stems erect or strict, mostly tall. 



■*-*■ ® 11 Spikes filiform and loosely flowered, naked. 



V. officinalis, Linn. European V. Nat. by roadsides. Stems l"-3° 

 high, branched ; leaves sessile, 3-cleft, and mostly pinnatifid into narrow 



