Verbenacee —Lippia. 359 
shrubs and herbs having opposite simple leaves and axillary 
pedunculate heads of small variously-coloured flowers. The 
fruit is 2-celled and drupoid. For bedding purposes some of 
the perennial species are treated as annuals. L. Caméra is 
the variable species commonly seen, with changeable flowers, 
yellow, white, orange, red, lilac, and intermediate tints, 
arranged in dense hemispherical heads. 
2. LIPPIA. 
A large genus of American lerbs and shrubs, only one of 
which concerns us. The distinctly bilabiate corolla, included 
stamens, and 2-celled capsule are the principal characters. The 
genus was dedicated to Lippi, an Italian botanist. 
1. L. cittriodéra, syn. Aldysia citriodéra, and Verbéna 
triphylla. Lemon-scented Verbena.—This favourite deciduous 
shrub is generally grown as a pot plant, but it will thrive and 
form large bushes in the South-west of England. It has slender 
branches and pale-green agreeably-scented lanceolate leaves 
arranged in whorls of threes. The flowers are very small, 
whitish or lilac, in terminal panicles. Chili. 
Lippia nodifiora, syn. Zapania lanceolata, etc., Fog-fruit, 
is a tufted creeping plant from North America with spathulate 
or cuneate serrate leaves and axillary pedunculate bracteolate 
capitules of pale blue flowers. 
The showy genus Clerodéndron, having simple leaves and 
terminal panicles of brightly coloured pentamerous flowers 
with exserted stamens and style, and 4-celled ovaries and fruits, 
furnishes one or two nearly or quite hardy species for the 
warmer parts of the south-western coast. But they are almost 
unknown out of the stove or greenhouse. 
C. fetidwm, syn. C. Bingei, a native of Northern China, 
will bear our ordinary winters with impunity. It is a hand- 
some shrub armed with short scattered spines. Leaves ample, 
pubescent, cordate-acuminate, toothed, on slender petioles. 
Flowers lilac-rose, in dense terminal corymbs. 
Callicérpa Americéna, French Mulberry, is a North Ame- 
rican dwarf tender shrub with ovate-oblong toothed leaves 
silvery beneath with a scurfy tomentum, and small flowers 
in axillary cymes, succeeded by violet-coloured berries, which 
constitute its chief attraction. 
