MACLOSKIE : VERBENACE/E. 689 



ments 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- 

 tJicr-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's, 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. AntJier-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 m m., 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. 



