MACLOSKIE I VERBENACE^e. 689 



mcnts linear, obtuse, revolute. Spikes peduncled, capitate, many-flowered. 

 Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, one third shorter than the hirsute calyx. 

 Corolla glabrous, pale sulfureous, i cm. long, exceeding the calyx. An- 

 ther-appendages clavate, exsert, violet, recurved-patent. 

 (Chili, in sterile places by the sea) ; N. Patagon. 



VERBENA SULFUREA INTERMEDIA O. Ktze. 

 Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; 15 mm. 



23. V. TENERA Spreng. 



Prostrate, much branching undershrub, creeping, but the branches 

 ascending. Leaves decurrent to a short petiole, pinnatifid-laciniate, their 

 segments linear, acute, entire, margin subrevolute. Spikes terminal, 

 peduncled, solitary or in 3*5, fastigiate, at length elongating, and lax. 

 Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, half as long as the long hairy or rough 

 calyx, which has glands at its angles. Anther-appendages scarcely ex- 

 sert, claviculate, slightly recurved. 



(S. Brazil) ; Patagon. 



24. V. TEUCRIOIDES Gill. & Hook. 



Stems cespitose, rooting at the base, ascending; terete, patent, hirt. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong-triangular, subcuneate, entire, narrowing to a 

 short petiole, subsinuate-serrate, revolute, rugosely venous, glandular-hairy 

 above, tomentose beneath. Spikes terminal, solitary, glandular-hirtellate. 

 Bracts subulate-lanceolate, ciliate, half as long as the nervose calyx. 

 Flowers large, white to pinkish. 



(S. Brazil ; Andina) ; N. Patagon., common about Rio Negro. 



25. (?) V. THYMIFOLIA Lag. 



Suffruticose, low, branching. Leaves ovate, ciliate, scabrid, revolute. 

 Spike terminal, capitate, solitary. 



S. Patagon.,- Puerto Deseado ; Lago Sta. Cruz. "Floral bracts 3-4 

 mm. by 2.5-3 mm., broader than in Philippi." (Speg.) 



26. V. TONINII O. Ktze. 



Very low, robust shrub, with stem i cm. thick. Leaves crowded, of 2 

 forms ; opposite, basiconnate, spinose-acicular, i cm. long, subrecurved, 

 forked-triangular; and others half as large, and straight, in the axils. 



