798 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



of leaves, slender, quadrangular, channelled ; bracts much imbricate, 

 variable, •! to' '2 in. long, lower broadly ovate, upper narrowly cuneate, 

 all acuminate with more or less hyaline fimbriate margins ; flowers 

 small, pale blue, pink, or white. Calyx 2-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent. Coro//a-tube slender, -1 in. long ; limb 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, 

 midlobe obtuse. Stigma capitate. Fruit -05 to '075 in. long, glabrous, 

 ovoid ; epicarp bony, membranous ; mesocarp granular ; endocarp 

 separating in two plano-convex pyrenes. Seed elliptic ; testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons fleshy. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 585 ; Wight 

 111. t. 173 b, fig. 2, and Ic. t. 1463 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. M. 198 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 563; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 905 ; Trimen M. Ceyl. III. 347 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 420 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 825 ; Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 279. Verbena nodiflora, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 20; Burm. Fl. Ind. 12, t. 6, fig. 1 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 4. 

 Blairia nodiflora, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 266, t. 56. Zapania nodiflora, 

 Lamk. 111. t. 17 ; Wall. Cat. 1824. Latana sarmentosa and repens, 

 Spreng. Syst. II. 752. Phyla chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 66. 



Penang : at Sangie Penang, Curtis 3520. Peovince Wbllesley : 

 Curtis 2208. Singapobe : Kunstler 1198, in grassy and sandy places 

 near the coast. — Disteib. India, Malay Archipelago, Africa and most 

 tropical and subtropical regions. 



3. Stachytaepheta, Vahl. 

 Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually opposite, toothed, usually rugose. 

 Flotvers in terminal spikes in the axils of bracts, the rachis often 

 hollowed out beneath each flower ; bracts lanceolate, long or short ; 

 bracteoles none. Calyx elongate, narrowly cylindrical, shortly 4- to 5- 

 toothed, variously slit at a late stage. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 

 slender, cylindrical, usually curved ; limb spreading, 5-lobed ; the lobes 

 equal or unequal, rounded. Stamens 2 perfect (the anticous ones), 

 included in the corolla-tube, affixed above the middle ; filaments 

 short ; anther-cells vertically divaricate ; staminodes (posticous) 2 or 0. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell, attached laterally near its 

 base ; style long, filiform, exsert ; stigma capitate. Fruit cylindrical, 

 included in the calyx, separating into 2 bony 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds 

 oblong ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle 

 inferior. — ^Disteib. About 40 species, mostly Tropical American, a 

 few African ; the Indo-Malayan species probably introduced and run 

 wild. 



Spikes usually slender, glabrous ; flowers blue .. .. 1. S.jamaicevsis. 



Spikes usually stout, hairy ; flowers pink . . . . 2. S. mutahilis. 



1. Stachytaepheta .tamaicensis, Vahl Enum. I. 206 (1805). An 



