XLIX. 
CYMBURUS MUTABILIS, 
Changeable Cymburus. 
ORDO NATURALS. 
Vitices. Juss. Gen. p. 106. 
Sect, HI. Flores spicati, in spicis alterni. 
Calyx compressus, fovea pedunculi poe Corolle Tubus curvus: Limbus parem infundi- 
buliformis, inequaliter 5-fidus. Filamenta 2 sterilia, Anthere longe, lobo alio in alium 
perpendiculari. Stigma pileiforme. Periearpinm 2 2-spermum , pelliculare. Herbe vel Suffru- 
tices. Folia opposita, serrata. Flores spica caudata terminali sertet, Lee ad singulos 
in cymbam Rottbolliz instar i rim Bractew solitaria. Hoc genus a Verbena, sub no~ 
mine Sherardie olim separavit Vaillant, et Stachytarphete nuper Va ahl: isto autem titulo 
canont 249 Phil. Bot. re ice a vocibus wu.By et wpa, etymon petivt: ejus species sunt 
Orubica L. Indica L. Jamaicensis L. et forsan plures. 
C. foliorum laminis ovatis, subtus tomentosis: bracteis apice patulis setaceisque: calycis dorse 
Vix indentem producto: corolla extus viscidulo-pubescente: stigmate integro. 
rebels — Vahl. Sp. Pl. 2. 1. p. 208. Verbena Mutabilis. Vent. Jard. Malm. ni 
36. cum Ic, Zapania Mutabilis. Lam. Illustr. Gen. p. 59. a sa Mutabilis. Jacq. Ic. Collect 
v. 2. = r 4, Sherardia teucriifolio, flore coccineo. Vaill. Sex..p. 49. Verbena Orubica, 
Teucriifolio, Primule veris flore, &c. Herm. Prodr. p. 388. "Y aebuil Americana, &e. flore 
- €occineo spicato. Brey “a Prodr. 2. p- 103. 3 . 
+} Ed Hh rontinentic 
Sponte nascitur in Ins. ‘Aruba, t 
Floret apud nos a Julio in Octobrem. — % 
No plants which belong to one and the same Natural Order, can be more distinct, in genus, 
than those which are above separated from the true Vervains : by the latter I mean such as have 
the habit and structure of Verbena Officinalis 8 L. in which the Peduncle is like se of _ other 
equally ifid, Seeds four e species now figured has has been erroneously ‘tees to Scopois 
sehus of Sappani marck, but I believe that botanist is right in quoting Ver bene 
for it, as far as poli the real plant from that Island, cultivated in Simon de Beaumont’s ‘garden 
P the year 1688. Both Pluknet’s figures however belong to Linné’s blue-flowered ® 
* Spica Joliosa,” first taken up by him in Hortus Cliffortianus : I 
ee L kar al tod inches long, ovate, sere 
Pe *? hairy, und : wit loa: Flowers in a long 5 . 
i tele he hollowed out for each flower as in some of the pen ie Bractes soos 0 incl, a 
aetna ey ane Hi 
