96 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
IL. VERBENEÆ 
1. Verbena T. — Flores irregulares; calyce tubuloso plus minus 
elongato, 5-costato, circa fructum immulato v. basi leviter dila- 
tato ; dentibus 5, æqualibus, v. anticis majoribus. Corollæ sub- 
2-labiatæ tubus rectus v. arcuatus, nune apice leviter ampliatus ; limbi 
patentis obliqui lobis 5, oblusis v. retusis imbricatis ; antico intimo ; 
posticis sæpius extimis: Slamina didynama v. raro 2, tubo inclusa; 
filamentis brevibus ; antherarum loculis introrsis déscretiss æqualibus 
v. imæqualibus, basi nunc breviter calcaratis ; connectivo nunc in 
appendicem variam producto. Germen Lloutiaies placentis parieta- 
hbus lateralibus 2, mox intus contiguis locellos 4 secernentibus; septis 
spuriis centripetis, antico et postico, placentas mox attingentibus. 
Stylus apice 2-lobus ; lobo antico crassiore stigmatoso obtuso ; postico 
sæpius brevi v. angusto haud papilloso. Ovula in locellis solitaria 
adscendentia hemitropa lateraliter affixa ; micropyle extrorsum infera. 
Fructus siccus, calyce inelusus ; pyrenis #4, solubilibus, duris v. crus- 
laceis; seminibus adscendentibus exalbuminosis ; embryonis carnosi 
radicula infera brevi. —Herbæ v. suffrutices, erecti, diffusi v. decum- 
bentes, glabri v. varie induti; foliis oppositis, nune raro alternis 
v. 5-natis, nunc squamiformibus, integris, dentatis v. dissectis; spicis 
elongatis v. capituliformibus, terminalibus v. raro axillaribus, nunc 
ramosis ; floribus sessilibus, 1-bracteatis. (Orbis utriusque reg. calid. 
el temp.) — Vid. p. 78. 
2. Famonea AUBL.! — Flores Verbenæ; calyee circa fructum 
campanulato, 5-costato, 5-dentato. Stamina didynama; antheris 
1. PL. Guian., IL, 659, t. 268. — GÆRTN.F., XI, 598. — , Gen., n. 3696 ocQ., in 
Fruct:, I, t. 213. — . in DC. Prodr. Adansonia, “ “a, me EE. Gas eV, 
