340 VERVAIN FAMILY. 



contains a single 4-celled stone. Flowers in cymes or clusters in the axils of the 

 compound digitate leaves, or of the upper leaves reduced to bracts ; shrubs or trees. 

 7. CLEEODENDEOlir. Calyx bell-form or tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla tube slender and 

 cylindrical, straight or curved ; limb spreading or somewhat renexed, 5 lobes unequal 

 in size or position. Stamens 4, and inserted on the throat of the corolla, long-exserted. 

 Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, the cells 1-ovuled. Style elongated and 2-lobed. Shrubs, 

 erect or climbing, the leaves entire or rarely dentate. 



1. PHHYMA, LOPSEED. (Name of unknown meaning.) One 

 species. 



P. Leptostachya, Linn. Copses, etc.; 2°-3° high, with coarsely- 

 toothed, ovate, thin leaves, and branches terminated by the slender 

 spikes of very small purplish flowers, in summer, the pedicels renexed in 

 fruit. % 



2. LANTANA. (Origin of name obscure.) Tropical or subtropical, 

 mostly shrubby plants, planted out in summer, when they flower freely 

 until frost comes ; stems often rough-prickly ; herbage and flowers 

 odorous, in some pleasant, others not so. The species are much mixed. 



L. Camara, Linn. Flowers deep yellow, turning first to orange, then 

 to red ; plant scabrous or hirsute, usually prickly ; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 oblong; head flat-topped. Ga., S., and cult. 



L. mixta, Linn. Brazil; has flowers opening white, soon changing to 

 yellow, orange, and finally to red. 



L. nivea, Vent. Brazil ; has the pleasant-scented flowers white and 

 unchanging ; or, in var. mutabilis, changing to bluish. 



L. involucrata, Linn. West Indies ; has small obovate and prominently 

 veiny leaves, more or less downy beneath, and heads of lilac-purple 

 flowers, involucrate by the outer bracts. 



L . Sellowiana, Link & Otto. Low and spreading, with Wedge-oblong or 

 ovate, strongly veined leaves, long peduncles, and heads of reddish-purple 

 flowers lengthening somewhat with age. Southern Brazil. 



3. LIPPIA. (Named for A. Lippi, an Italian botanist.) Flowers late 

 summer. 



L. lanceolata, Michx. Fog Fruit. A creeping weedy herb, along 

 river banks from Penn., S. and W., with wedge-spatulate or oblanceolate 

 leaves serrate above the middle, and slender peduncles from the axils 

 bearing a head of bluish small flowers. 



L. citrioddra, HBK. (or Aloysia), the Lemon-soented or Sweet 

 Verbena of the gardens ; shrub from Chile, with whorls of linear-lance- 

 olate fragrant leaves, roughish with glandular dots, and small whitish and 

 bluish flowers in slender spikes. 



4. VERBENA, VERVAIN. (Latin name of some sacred herbs.) 

 Flowers all summer. Genus of difficult analysis on account of numer- 

 ous hybrids, both wild and in cultivation. 



* Vervains, native to the country, or growing as wild weeds, mostly in 

 waste or cultivated ground ; the flowers insignificant, in slender spikes , 

 no appendage at tip of the anthers. 



*- Stems erect or strict, mostly tall. ' 



** ® % Spikes filiform and loosely flowered, naked. 



V. officinalis, Linn. European V. Nat. by roadsides. Stems l°-3° 

 high, branched ; leaves sessile, 3-cleft, and mostly pinnatifid into narrow 



