492 VERBENACE^. 



which is equally 3-fid.— Whorls large, mbgloiose, distant; flowers crimson or yellow; 

 calyx recurved, oblique. 



29. Ii. nepetsefolia, R. Br. Annual ; leaves ovate, crenate-serrate, long-petioled ; 

 calyx-teeth spinescent, unequal, lanceolate linear, uppermost much larger, subulate ; corolla 

 crimson, villous, about twice as long as the calyx. — Bot. Meg. t. 381. — Phlomis, L. 2'-8' 

 high : whorls abont 2" diara. — Hab. Jamaica !, March, a weed ; Antigua !, Wulhchl. ; 

 S. Vincent !, Guild. ;■ Trinidad !, Sch., Or., common ; [S. Thomas to Brazil ! , trop. Africa ! 

 and Asia!]. 



12*. PEUNELLA, L. 



Calyx 2-lipped, closed in fruit, reticulated-veiny : upper lip flat. Corolla 2-Upped, 

 annulate within. Stamens didynamous, parallel, 2 inferior longer : filaments appendicidate 

 behind the anthers : anther-cells diverging. Stigma-lohes 2, pointed. Nutlets smooth.— 

 Low, perennial herbs ; whorls shortly spicule. 

 ^ 30*. P. vulgaris, L. Leaves ovate, petioled ; calyx exceeding half the blue corolla: 

 upper teeth distant ; filaments bearing a subulate, straight tooth. — Hab. Naturalized in 

 Jamaica !, March; [introduced from the Old World]. 



13. SCrTELLABIA, X. 



Calyx 2-lipped, closed in fruit, but splitting to the base : lips entire, the superior furnished 

 with a dorsal, helmet-like appendage. Corolla 2-lipped : tube exserted. Stamens didy- 

 namous, parallel, 2 inferior longer -. anthers hairy, of the longer 1-, of the shorter 2-celled. 

 Style-lobes unequal. Nutlets tubercled. — ^Whorls often one-sided. 



31. S. purpurasccns, Svi. Herbaceous, difi^nse, branched chiefly at the base, leaves 

 petioled, ovate, or deltoid, bluutish, few-serrate, floral minute, elliptical, entire ; whorls 

 distant in a short, lax,, one-sided raceme, %-floiBered (or the uppermost flowers scattered) ; 

 calyx shorter than the pedicel, at length excrescent ; corolla blue, pubescent : tube slender, 

 cylindrical, dilated at the throat, much longer than the calyx. ^^Variable, glabrescent or 

 pubescent, 5"-l' high ; leaves 1", calyx scarcely 1'", in fruit 3'", corolla 6'"-8"' long. — ■ 

 Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl., Dominical, Imr., S.Lucia!, Anders., S.Vincent!, Guild.; 

 Trinidad I, Sieb. Tr. 169 ; [Cubai to Guadeloupe ! ; Guatemala! to BrazU]. 



14. TEUCEITJM, L. 



Calyx 5-dentate or 5-fid. Corolla 1-lipped, deciduous : inferior lobe much larger. Sta- 

 mens didynamous, inferior longer. Nutlets obliquely aflixed, mostly reticulated-rugose. 



32. T. cubense, Z. Herbaceous, erect, glabrous ; leaves cuueate-elliptical, piunatifid- 

 serrate with .blunt oblong lobes or serratures ; whorls %-flowered, axillary : pedicels about 

 as long as the deeply ^-fid calyx ; corolla bluish- white, about twice as long as the calyx. 



f — Jacq. Amer, Pict. t. 164. — Stem simple, 1'— 1^' high. — Hab. Bahamas 1, Swains. ; 

 [Cuba ! ; California and Texas ! to Buenos Ayres !]. 



33. T. inflatum, Su>. Herbaceous, erect, villous, pubescent or glabrate ; leaves 

 petioled, ovate or ovate-lauceolate, coarsely serrate; whorls approximate, in a slender, 

 spieiform raceme; calyx subsessile', inflated-ventricose, oblique, unequally 5-dentate at 



' the contracted summit : upper tooth broader ; corolla light-pink, twice as long as the calyx. 

 —Desc. Fl. 3. t. 223.— Stem 2'-3' high, few-branched; raceme 3"-5" long.— HaB. Ja- 

 maica!, Al., Wullschl, Wils., March, in shady places; [Mexico! to Buenos Ayres!; 

 Galapagos ! to New Caledonia I]. 



CXXT. VERBENACEiE. 



Stamens didynamous or 2-5(-more), inserted into the sympetalous, inibricative, usually 

 2-lipped corolla. Ovary superior, 2-4(-l)-carpellary, 4-8-2(-l)-celled : ovules 1 (-2) in 

 each cell : style terminal. Fruit drupaceous, or, .when dry, usually splitting into nutlets. 



