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3 D. ovata Walt. St. square, ascending, 48' ; leaves lance-ovate, acute, longer than 



the 3-4-flo>vcred peduncles ; corolla pale-purple, 3 4". S. Car. to Fla. 



4 . li ic mills Wood. Erect, square, 1 IK ; leaves lance-elliptical, shorter than the 



O> -flowered, 1-sided spikes; corolla 5", purple. Fla. to La. (Justicia MX.) 



7. CYRTANTHERA, Nees, Corolla ringent, upper lip falcate, lower 

 Jn 3 narrow segments. Sta. 2, anth. nodding. Caps. 4-seeded ? if. Brazil. 

 C. CARNEA. Stem tall, stout, with ample ovate to oblong leaves, and large, showy, ter 

 minal spikes of many flesh-colorer 1 flowers. In the greenhouse. 



ORDER XC. VERBENACE^E. VERVAINS. 



Herbs (or generally shrubs and trees) with opposite, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers with a bilabiate or more or less irregular monopetalous corolla. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, rarely equal, sometimes only 2. Style 1. Fruit 

 diy or drupaceous, 2-4-celled (1-celled in Phryma), forming as many 1- 

 seecled nutlets. Seeds erect or pendulous, with little or no albumen. 



Herbs. Fruit dry, consisting of 



a 4 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 5-lobed VKRBENA. 1 



a 2 two-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 5-cleft, minute, spicate. S. Fla PRIVA ecfiiiihta. 



a 2 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 2. Flowers spicate, imbedded. S. Fla STACHYTARPHA. 



a 2 one-seeded nutlets. Stamens 4. Corolla 4-parted LIPPIA. 2 



a 1 one-seeded nutlet, reflexed. Stamens 4. Corolla bilabiate PHRTMA. 3 



| Shrubs. Fruit fleshy, berry-like (or a 2-celled capsule in No. 7). . .(&) 



b Leaves compound, digitate. Flowers 5-parted. Seed 1 VITKX. 6 



I Leaves simple, toothed. c Cymes axillary. Drupes 4-seedd CALLICARPA. 4 



c Heads axillary. Drupes 2-seeded. LANTANA. 5 



b Leaves simple, entire. d Drupe 2-seeded. Spikes terminal (ALOYSIA.) 2 



d Drupe 4-seeded. S. Fla CITHAKKXYLUM mUdsum. 



d Drupe 8-seeded. S. Fla DURANTA Plumieri. 



d Capsule 4-seeded. Flowers in heads ..AVICKNNIA tomentda. 



1. VERBENA, L. VERVAIN. Calyx 5-toothed, with one of the teeth 

 often shorter. Cor. funnel-form, limb somewhat unequally 5-lobed, lobes 

 cmarginate. Sta. 4, included, the upper pair sometimes abortive. Drupe 

 splitting into 4, 1-seeded, indehiscent carpels. Herbs or undershrubs. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers sessile, mostly in spikes or heads. 



Uorymbed ; the open corollas of the spike forming a corymb. Stems weak. . . (a) 



a Leaves 3-cleft or pinnatifld, the lobes cut-serrate or toothed Nos. 1-3 



a Leaves merely serrate or toothed, somewhat incised Nos. 4 7 



Spicate; the open corollas lateral, in slender spikes., .(b) 



b Stem simple (mostly), bearing a single spike. Leaves oblong Nos. 8, 9 



b Stem branched, with many spikes. c Leaves mostly simple Nos. 1012 



c Leaves much divided Nos. 1313 



1 V. Aubletia L. Lvs. ovate-oblong in outline, 3-parted, cut, acute and petiolate at 



base ; spikes pedunculate ; bracts half as long as the cylindrical calyx. Dry soils, Va. 

 to 111., and S. If. Flowers lilac, varying in the gardens to purple. April, May. 



2 V. INCISA. Leaves oblong to deltoid, rugous, cut-lobed and serrate, abrupt at base, 



peliolate ; bracts ovate, a fourth as long as the glandular calyx ; corolla rose-purple. 

 U Brazil. Stems some shrubby, ascending. 



3 V. MULTIFIDA. Small, creeping, branched ; leaves maltifid into narrow, acute seg- 



ments ; bracts subulate, shorter than calyx. Brazil. Red to white. 



