MACLOSKIE: VERBENACE/C. 691 



nerves obsolete. Bracts ovate, nearly as long as the shortly 4-toothed 

 calyx. Corolla exserted, bilabiate. 



Plateaux of N. Patagon., above Rio Negro. 



3. LIPPIA Linn. 



Leaves opposite or whorled, rarely alternate. Flowers small, bracted, 

 in spikes or heads. Calyx small, 2-4-merous. Corolla 4-cleft, 2-lipped. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; fruit dry, separating into 4 achenes. 



Species 100, most in tropical Amer. ; some extending to Mex. ; and 

 outliers in Galapagos, Africa, Timor (not in Australasia). 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3*7, p. 150, C, D.) 



1. L. FOLIOLOSA Phil. 



Low, fruticose, rather glabrous. Leaves crowded, minute, cuneate, 

 oblong, 3-lobed, marginally revolute, with a leaf-fascicle in the axil. 

 Spikes axillary along the branches, and terminal, short, subglobular. 

 Bracts ovate, scarcely shorter than the hispid calyx. 



(Argentina) ; N. Patagon., Chubut, by Lago Fontana. 



2. L. JUNCEA Schauer. 



Suffruticose ; sparsely leafy, glabrous. Branches long, fistulose. Leaves 

 oblong, acute, or elliptic, the base narrowing to a petiole. Spikes termi- 

 nal, somewhat lax. Flowers distichous ; bracts scale-like. Calyx short, 

 hairy, its teeth short, unequal. 



Valdivia to N. Patagon., Mts. in Chubut. 



3. L. LYCIOIDES Steud. 



Shrub, with tetragonal branches, and spinescent, hoary-pubescent branch- 

 lets. Leaves aromatic, opposite, elliptical or lanceolate-oblong, attenuate- 

 petiolate, subrevolute, entire or serrate from the middle, punctate above 

 and below, tomentose. Solitary, axillary racemes, panicled at ends of 

 branches and interruptedly whorled. Calyx campanulate, hirsute-villous, 

 with subulate teeth. Corolla exceeding the calyx by half, its throat villous. 



(Argentina and S. Brazil ; its leaves are put into Paraguay Tea, and 

 also used medicinally. Poleo of the Spaniards; Tschoike-mammel or 

 Ostrich-wood of the Araucanians. Also in Mexico.) 



N. Patagon. 



