VERBE'NA CHAMADRIFO'LIA. 
VERONICA-LEAVED VERBENA. 
EXOGEN&, DICOTYLEDONES. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, VERBENACEZ, 
COROLLIFLORA, > ee divisions } +e) DIDYNAMIA, 
OF to which ANGIOSPERMIA, 
DECANDOLLE. ie Plant belongs. OF LINNEUWs, 
GENUS. Versena. Lrnnzus. Caryx i quadri-quinque-dentatus. 
Corotta tubo cylindrico recto vel incurvo, limbo quinquefido patente inzequali. 
Sramina quatuor, tubo inclusa, didynama. Ovarivm quadriloculare, ovulis 
solitariis erectis basifixis. Fructus siccus, drupaceus, quadrilocularis, quadri- 
partibilis. Empryonts exalbuminosi pre — Hers suffruticesve, in 
variis regionibus diffusi. Fortra oppos  axillares vel terminales. 
simplices'vel. paniculato-ramosz, forties, aie as bracteatis. 
PECIES, Versena coaMzprRironia. Jussieu. Procumbens vel adscen- 
dens, piloso-hispida, foliis breviter petiolatis hae. lanseolatis grosse serratis, 
corymbis pedunculatis multifloris, bracteis brevibus subulato-lanceolatis, ca- 
lycibus tubulosis hispidis, corolle tubo calyce duplo longiore, laciniis cuneatis 
emarginato-bifidis. 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, VERBENA. Caryx tubular, with 
four or five short teeth. Corotxa with a cylindrical tube, straight 
or curved; the limb be oak unequally five-cleft. STamENs 
four, lee in the tube, didynamous. Ovary four-celled; the 
ovules solitary, erect, fixed by their base to the bottom of the ‘cell. 
Fruit a dry drupe, with four one-seeded cells, and separable into four 
parts. Emsryo without albumen, and with the radicle inferior. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, VERBENA CHAMEDRIFOLIA. STEM 
procumbent, sometimes trailing along the ground and rooting at the 
joints, sometimes ascending but never upright, covered with short rough 
spreading or reflexed hairs, Leaves borne on very short stalks, ob- 
long-lanceolate, pointed, bordered with coarse irregular teeth, rounde 
or more frequently wedge-shaped at the base; one to two inches long, 
rough, somewhat hairy and green on both sides. FLOWER-SPIKE borne 
on a long hispid peduncle which is at first terminal but becomes late- 
ral by the elongation of the stem, contracted into a sort of corymb. 
Fiowenrs sessile in the axilla of a short pointed bractea; the lower 
ones often opposite, the upper ones alternate. CaLyx narrow, tubular, 
about five lines long, angular, hairy, terminating in five minute teeth, 
rather swollen at the base as the fruit ripens. Corowza with a yel- 
lowish green tube about twice the length of the calyx; the limb 
— of a rich scarlet in the ordinary yurety. a brilliant crimson 
show 
