16 LiPPlA. 



The genus resembles much the genus LANTANA; the most 

 striking difference is in its fruit, which has a dry (not a fleshy) 

 exocarp, and splits up into two dry cocci. 



1. a Peduncles shorter than the leaves 2. 



b. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 5^11 cM.; leaves 



small, with rounded apex, subsessile, base attenuate, 

 reaching 4 by 2 cM 1. L. nodiflora p. 16. 



2. a. Leaves ovate; bracts ovate, long cuspidate-acuminate, 



somewhat" shorter than the corolla-tube; corolla pink. 



2. L. geminata.p. 18. 

 b. Leaves lanceolate; bracts rhornboid or nearly circular, 

 abrubtly acuminate or -apiculatc, as long as the corolla- 

 tube; corolla white 3. L. asperifolia p. 18. 



Doubtful species: 4. L. javanica p. 19. 



1. L. nodiflora Rich, (vcl Michx. in Rich.?), Fi. Bor. 

 Am. II. 15, (1803); Blume, Bijdr. 821; R. Brown, Prodr. 

 514; Benth. and v. MuelL, Fl. Austr. V, 34; Williams, 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. II. T. V, 430; Schauer, DC. 

 Prodr. XI, 585; Forbes and Hemsley, Fl. Sin. II, 251; 

 Forbes, Wander. Nat. f. Mai. Arch. II. 226; Palle in 

 Lorentz, Nova-Guinea, VIII, 2. 401; HooA:. f., Fl. Br. 

 Ind., IV, 563; King and Gamble, Journ. As. See. Beng. 

 LXXIV, 4. 797; Koordevs. Exk. fl. v. Java, III 133; 

 HooA:. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 349; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl„ 

 I, 508; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 905 and suppl. I, 244 

 and 570; Merrill, Bur. Gov. Lab. no. 27. 67 and Phil. 

 Journ. Sci. Bot. XI. 310; Martins, Fl. Brasil. IX, 238; 

 Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. III. 430; Hall. f. Med. 

 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 19; Hasskarl. 2e Cat. 's Lands 

 PI. tuin Buitzg., 134; Schimper, Bot. Mitt. a. d. Tropen, 

 III, 129; Valeton, Bull. Dept. Agric. Ind. Need. no. X, 

 53; Zollinger u. Moritzi, Syst. Verz., 52. — Verbena 

 nodiflora L. Sp. pi. 20, (1753); Barm. Fl. ind. 12. t. 6. 

 fig. 1; Roxb., Hort. Beng. 4. — Blairia nodiflora 

 Gaertn: Fruct. I, 266, t. 56, (1788). — Zapania 

 nodiflora Lam. 111. t. 17, (1793); Wall. cat. no. 1824. - 



