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shrubs and herbs having opposite simple leaves and axillary 

 pedunculate heads of small variously-coloured flowers. The 

 fruit is 2-celled and drupoid. For bedding purposes some of 

 the perennial species are treated as annuals. L. Gamara is 

 the variable species commonly seen, with changeable flowers, 

 yellow, white, orange, red, lilac, and intermediate tints, 

 arranged in dense hemispherical heads. 



2. LTPPIA. 



A large genus of American herbs and shrubs, only one of 

 which concerns us. The distinctly bilabiate corolla, included 

 stamens, and 2-celled capsule are the principal characters. The 

 genus was dedicated to Lippi, an Italian botanist. 



1. L. citriodora, syn. Aloysia citriodora, and Verbena 

 triphylla. Lemon-scented Verbena. This favourite deciduous 

 shrub is generally grown as a pot plant, but it will thrive and 

 form large bushes in the South-west of England. It has slender 

 branches and pale-green agreeably-scented lanceolate leaves 

 arranged in whorls of threes. The flowers are very small, 

 whitish or lilac, in terminal panicles. Chili. 



Lippia nodiflora, syn. Zapania lanceolata, etc., Fog-fruit, 

 is a tufted creeping plant from North America with spathulate 

 or cuneate serrate leaves and axillary pedunculate bracteolate 

 capitules of pale blue flowers. 



The showy genus Glerodendron, having simple leaves and 

 terminal panicles of brightly coloured pentamerous flowers 

 with exserted stamens and style, and 4-celled ovaries and fruits, 

 furnishes one or two nearly or quite hardy species for the 

 warmer parts of the south-western coast. But they are almost 

 unknown out of the stove or greenhouse. 



G. f&tidum, syn. G. Bungei, a native of Northern China, 

 will bear our ordinary winters with impunity. It is a hand- 

 some shrub armed with short scattered spines. Leaves ample, 

 pubescent, cordate-acuminate, toothed, on slender petioles. 

 Flowers lilac-rose, in dense terminal corymbs. 



Gallicdrpa Americana, French Mulberry, is a North Ame- 

 rican dwarf tender shrub with ovate-oblong toothed leaves 

 silvery beneath with a scurfy tomentum, and small flowers 

 in axillary cymes, succeeded by violet-coloured berries, which 

 constitute its chief attraction. 



