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below. Peduncles long ; the spike solitary ; bracts lance-subulate, ciliate, 

 shorter than the hoary calyx. Flowers large scarlet. 



(S. Brazil and Argentina ; much cultivated for its splendid flowers) ; N. 

 Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



8. VERBENA CONNATIBRACTEATA O. Ktze. 



Low, branching shrub, 15-20 cm. high. Leaves crowded, basally sub- 

 connate, triquetrous, canaliculate above, acute. Lax, 6-8-flowered ter- 

 minal, subsessile spike. Flowers opposite in pairs, with green connate 

 bracts as long as the calyx, or the upper bracts free. Calyx cylindrical, 

 green, spinose-toothed, pubescent. Corolla twice as long, with slender, 

 glabrous tube. 



(Argentina); Patagon. 



9. V. ERINACEA Gill. & Hook. 



Spinous shrub, cespitose ; with thick, woody root, and dense, opposite, 

 connate, acerose leaves, pungent, at length long-spinescent. Heads few- 

 flowered, at length immersed among the leaves. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 mucronate, one fourth shorter than the long, tubular, rough, striate calyx. 

 Calyx-teeth pungent. Corolla half exceeding the calyx. 



(Argentina); Patagon., by Lago Argentine. 



10. V. ERINOIDES Lam. 



Stem rooting, strigose-hirt, branching, decumbent, the branches ascend- 

 ing. Leaves basi-cuneate, narrowing to a petiole, 3-partite, pinnatifid, or 

 laciniate ; their segments lanceolate, acutish, entire or toothed, revolute, 

 strigose. Spikes terminal and alar, pedunculate, solitary, at first fasti- 

 giate, canescent. Bracts lance-acuminate, spreading, nearly equalling the 

 long calyx. Anther appendages short, bearded. 



Annual, coming early (Nov.); with white flowers (" red-violet " DC); 

 having scent of vanilla. 



(S. Brazil ; Peru); N. Patagon., near Rio Negro. 



ii. V. GAYANA O. Ktze. (V. gla^lca Gay, non Gill. & Hook.) 

 Hispid-hairy shrub ; branching, the branches rigid, secund. Leaves 

 short-linear, erect, alternate, with smaller in the axils. Heads terminal, 

 subglobose. Bracts ovate-acuminate, nearly as long as the calyx. Corolla 

 twice as long, 4-lobed. 



At Coquimbo, Chili ; Atacama. 



