SELAGIKELE 357 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, finely pubescent, 1-8-2-2 cm. long. 



Cotyledons linear-obtuse, or subacute, entire, channelled above 

 rounded on the back with a faint indication of a midrib glabrous' 

 deep green, 1-6-1-8 cm. long, 1-1-5 mm. wide. 



Stem erect, terete, finely pubescent, brownish after a time 1st 

 mternode 1-1-2 cm. long; 2nd 4-5 mm.; succeeding ones Very 

 short. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate (first two opposite), exstipulate, 

 sessile, channelled above, tapering to a narrow petiole-like base' 

 rounded on the back with a faint indication of a midrib similar to 

 the cotyledons, glabrous or slightly pubescent at the base on the 

 under side. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite. 



Nos. 3-30. Narrow, linear, subentire or with two or three blunt 

 teeth near the apex, alternate and crowded, similar to the cotyledons 

 but longer. 



VERBENACE^E, 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 1131. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior and undivided, or 

 four-furrowed or rarely shortly four-lobed. It consists of two 

 carpels and normally in the young state is one-celled, with 

 the placentas strongly intruded into the cavity, and re vo- 

 lute, dividing the ovary more or less perfectly into two cells, 

 twin-ovuled, or one-ovuled by abortion. The cells after- 

 wards become bilocellate by the development of spurious 

 septa, and the four locelli then contain a single ovule each. 

 In a few genera the ovary consists of four to five carpels 

 divided into eight to ten locelli; and in the tribes Sym- 

 phoremesB and Avicenniese the ovary of the young flower is 

 already four-celled, or one-celled at the apex only. The ovules 

 are more or less amphitropous except in Phryma, Clerodendron 

 Kaempferi, and possibly some others. They are inserted on 

 the involute margins of the carpels, at the base, middle or 

 towards the apex, with the micropyle inferior ; rarely are they 

 axial. The fruit is baccate or somewhat capsular, with a fleshy, 

 succulent or thin and dry exocarp, and generally a hardened 



