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CLASSIFICATION 



Nat. Order 23. Verbenacece. — Herbs, shrubs, or 

 trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, simple or digitate, 

 rarely pinnate. Flowers irregular. Sepals, petals, 

 and stamens as in Acanthacece and Labiatce. Car- 

 pels 2, connate in a superior 2- to 4-celled, 4-lobed, or 

 entire ovary; style as in Acanthacece; ovules solitary 



or 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit a drupe or 

 berry, rarely capsular, 

 4-, 2-, or I -celled, 

 cells i-seeded. Seeds 

 erect, exalbuminous. 

 Chiefly tropical. 

 Common plants: 



sagoon or Teak (Tec- 

 tona grandis), a tree 

 80 to 1 20 feet high, of 

 first importance in 

 India as affording 

 one of the best and 

 most durable timbers 

 known, having flowers 

 in dichotomous pan- 

 icled cymes with 5 to 

 6 stamens, and fruit a 

 drupe enclosed within a persistent calyx; ghentu or 

 bhant (Clerodendron infortunaturn) (fig. 218), an erect 

 shrub supposed to have the power of exorcising the 

 evil spirit which presides over the disease known as 

 itch (khosh); nishinde (Vitex Negundo), a common 

 shrub or tree with trifoliate or quinate leaves-; 

 gambhari (Gmelina arbor ed) (fig. 219), a timber tree 

 of Orissa jungles 40 to 60 feet high; Lantana indica, 

 a waste-land shrub having the evil repute of generat- 

 ing malarious fever; Verbena officinalis, also a small 



Fig. 218. — Ghentu or bhant (^CLerodendrO)L 

 infoi'Utnaturn) 



