LAMIACEAE. 375 



1. Clerodendrura fragrans Vent. Jard, Malm. pi. 70. 1804. 



Ovieda fragrans Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 118. 1893. 



Half -shrubby, finely pubescent, 6-15 dm. nigh, the stout branches angled. 

 Leaves very broadly ovate, 1-2 dm. long, acute at the apex, cordate or nearly 

 truncate at the base, coarsely dentate, long-petioled ; flowers white, fragrant, 

 double in all American specimens examined, in dense terminal cymes, the 

 corolla about 2.5 cm. broad; calyx 5-cleft, its lanceolate lobes acuminate; 

 corolla-lobes rounded. 



Roadside, New Providence : Bermuda ; Florida ; West Indies and continental 

 tropical America. Naturalized from the tropics of Asia. ODOROUS CLERODENDRON. 

 WILD JESSAMINE. 



.15. AVICENNIA L. Sp. PI. 110. 1753. 



Evergreen trees, sometimes shrubby, with nodose twigs, opposite entire 

 leathery leaves without stipules, and peduncled clusters of white bracted 

 flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, silky, with 5 persistent lobes. Corolla campanu- 

 late, its short tube nearly cylindric, its limb spreading, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 adnate to the corolla-tube, the anthers introrse. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; ovules 

 4, on a central placenta; style short, 2 lobed. Fruit capsular, oblique, apicu- 

 late. Seeds without endosperm,, usually germinating in the capsule. [In 

 honor of Avicenna (980-1036) of Bokhara, a distinguished oriental physician.] 

 Three known species of tropical and subtropical seacoasts. Type species: 

 Avicennia officinalis L. 



1. Avicennia nitida Jacq. Enum. 25. 1760. 



A tree, up to about 16 m. high, with shallowly fissured dark scaly bark, 

 orange-red within, the young twigs finely pubescent. Leaves pubescent when 

 young, soon becoming glabrous above, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. 

 long, obtuse or apiculate at the apex, finely canescent beneath, narrowed at the 

 base into short petioles; panicles 2-5 cm. long; corolla 10-14 mm. broad, its 

 lobes rounded; capsule oblong or elliptic, 2-5 cm. long, light green, slightly 

 pubescent. 



In mangrove mud and shallows of the sea, throughout the archipelago from 

 Abaco and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Inagua and Cay Sal : Bermuda ; Florida 

 to Texas ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Catesby, 1 : pi. 85. BLACK 

 MANGROVE. GREEN TURTLE BOUGH. 



Family 8. LAMIACEAE Lindl. 

 MINT FAMILY. 



Aromatic punctate herbs, or shmbs (a few tropical species trees), 

 mostly with 4-sided stems and simple opposite leaves; stipules none. 

 Flowers irregular, perfect, clustered, the inflorescence typically cymose, 

 usually bracj;eolate. Calyx inferior, persistent, 5-toothed or 5-lobed 

 (rarely 4-toothed), mostly nerved. Corolla with a short or long tube, 

 the limb 4-5-lobed, mostly 2-lipped, regular in a few genera; upper lip 

 2-lobed, or sometimes entire; lower lip mostly 3-lobed. Stamens borne 

 on the corolla-tube, typically 4 and didynamous, sometimes 2, rarely equal ; 

 filaments separate, alternate with the corolla-lobes; anthers 2-celled, introrse, 

 or confluently 1-celled, or sometimes of a single sac. Disk usually present, 

 fleshy. Ovary 4-lobed, or 4-parted, superior, each lobe or division with 1 

 mostly anatropous ovule; style arising from the centre of the lobed or 



