368 VEEBENACEAE. 



compressed and 2-winged, 2-4-toothed or 2-4-cleft. Corolla-tube cylindric, the 

 limb oblique, somewhat 2-lipped, 4-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 

 ovate, not appendaged, the sacs nearly parallel. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1 in 

 each cavity; style short; stigma oblique or recurved. Fruit dry, with a mem- 

 branous exocarp, at length separating into 4 nutlets. [Named in honor of 

 Auguste Lippi, 1678-1703, a French naturalist.] About 100 species, most 

 abundant in tropical America. Type species: Lippia americana L. 



Shrubs, erect or ascending. 



Leaves lanceolate, sharply serrate. 1. L. stoechadifolia. 



Leaves ovate or oblong, crenate. 2. L. geminata. 

 Prostrate or ascending herbs. 



Leaves inconspicuously veined. 3. L. nodiflora. 



Leaves usually prominently veined. 4. L. reptans. 



1. Lippia stoechadifolia (L.) H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 265. 1818. 



Verbena stoechadifolia L. Sp. PI. 19. 1753. 



Phyla stoechadifolia Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 36: 162. 1909. 



Shrubby, loosely appressed-strigose, ascending or suberect, usually little 

 branched, 2-4 dm. high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather firm in texture, 2.5-6 cm. long, strongly pinnately veined, sharply and 

 evenly serrate, acute at the apex, narrowed into short petioles; peduncles axil- 

 lary or lateral, mostly longer than the leaves; heads at first subglobose, at 

 length oblong-cylindric, 1-2 cm. long, obtuse; bracts suborbicular, mucronate; 

 calyx 2-toothed, compressed; corolla about 4 mm. long, longer than the bracts, 

 its tube twice as long as the calyx. 



Borders of fresh-water pockets and ponds, New Providence, Cat Island, Wat- 

 ling's, Great Exuma, Long Island and Fortune Island : Cuba ; Porto Rico ; Guade- 

 loupe ; Jamaica ; Mexico. MARSH LIPPIA. 



2. Lippia geminata H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 266. 1818. 



Lippia geminata microphylla Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 495. 1861. 



An aromatic, densely puberulent shrub 1 m. high or less, usually much 

 branched, the branches slender. Leaves ovate or oblong, 1.5-7 cm. long, acute 

 or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, crenate or creiralate, puberulent, 

 rugose above, the petioles 3-8 mm. long; peduncles axiilary mostly much 

 shorter than the leaves; heads sub globose, or short-oblong, 8-12 mm. long; 

 bracts ovate, puberulent, acute, about 3 mm. long, nearly as long as the 

 corolla; calyx 2-toothed; corolla purple, violet or white, its tube about 3 times 

 as long as the calyx. 



Turk's Islands (according to Grisebach), not found there by us : Cuba ; Jamaica ; 

 Porto Rico ; Antigua to Trinidad ; continental tropical America. Often planted for 

 its fragrant foliage. BUSHY LIPPIA. 



3. Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 15. 1803. 



Verbena nodiflora L. Sp. PI. 20. 1753. 

 Phyla nodiflora Greene, Pittonia 4: 46. 1899. 



Minutely and rather densely puberulent, herbaceous, creeping, or the 

 branches ascending, 3-9 dm. long. Leaves thickish, spatulate, oblanceolate, 

 or obovate, 1-6 cm. long, 0.6-2.5 cm. wide, inconspicuously veined, mostly 

 obtuse, narrowed into a cuneate entire base, sharply serrate above the middle; 

 heads at length cylindric and 1-2.5 cm. long; corolla purple to white, little 

 longer than the bracts. 



Palmetto lands and moist waste places, Great Bahama, North Cat Cay, New 

 Providence, Mariguana, Acklin's, Fortune Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; 

 North Carolina to Texas ; West Indies : Mexico to northern South America ; warm- 

 temperate and tropical parts of the Old World. Referred by Mrs. Northrop and by 

 Coker to L. canesccns H.B.K. CAPE-WEED. CREEPING LIPPIA. 



