826 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Stachytarpheta. 
5, connate in a tubular, membranous or herbaceous, somewhat 
5-ribbed calyx; lobes equal or unequal. Petals 5, connate in a 
sa beara ic corolla; tube cylindric ; lobes of limb spreading, 
u unequal, obtuse or retuse. Stamens 2, anterior only 
ae ale to aids of corolla-tube, included ; anthers with 
ovate, vertically divaricate cells; posterior staminodes small. 
pels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in each cell, 
attached laterally near base of cell; style long; stigma terminal, 
subcapitate. Fruit dry, included in the calyx, peta: into two 
aoe My seeded pyrenes. Seed erect, without albur 
. STACHYTARPHETA INDICA Vahl; F. B. I. hay 
In all the — naturalised ; often aie cultivated 
in native garden 
A herb, 1-2 feet high; native of America. 
722. Verbena Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, usually pubescent; leaves opposite or 
ternate, tontied or pinnatifid. Flowers small, in terminal, simple 
or corymbose spikes; bracts small; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, con- 
nate in a ee 5-ribbed calyx; lobes short. Petals 5, connate 
an oblique, somewhat 2-lipped corolla ; ag straight or curved; 
she oblong, obtuse or retuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 
anthers ovate, 2-celled; cells abpavatlel Carpels connate in & 
more or less 4-lobed ovary, in flower already sometimes 4-locular ; 
ovules 4, laterally attached near base of cell; style short; stigma 
obscurely 2-lobed. Frwit dry, included in the —e separating 
ae Fes pyrenes., Seeds erect, albumen no 
ERBENA OFFICINALIS Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 566; E D. v. 70. 
In all the provinces. 
A weed in waste places. 
723. Duranta Jacq. 
Glabrous or tomentose shrubs; leaves opposite or whorled, 
toothed or entire. Flowers in long terminal, or shorter axillary 
racemes, alternate on the rachis, short pedicelled in the axils of 
small bracts; bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in a tubular or sub- 
-campanulate, truncate or minutely 5-toothed calyx, enlarged in 
fruit, embracing but free from the eck often narrowed at the 
mouth. Petals 5, connate in a short corolla; tube cylindric; limb 
oblique or not; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 
