564 CXI. VBRBKNACEiE. (C. B. Claike.) [Lippia. 



Lantana sp. n. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8e T. Lantaua canescens, Sort, Calc, 

 not Linn. 



BEifaiLD, frequent; below Dacca, J. D. M., &o. — Distbib. Trap. America, a 

 widely dispersed weed. 



So closely resembling Lcmtana indica that without fruit it is difficalt to dis- 

 tinguish. Leaves and peduncles opposite or ternate. Peduncles rarely exceeding 

 ^-1 in. ; outer bracts rarely exceeding I in. Fruit ,'j-^ in. diam. 



lY. BOUCXEA, Cham. 



Herbs or Tindershrubs. Leaves petioled,'ovate or oblong, tootbed. Spikes 

 terminal, linear, elongate; bracts much shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 narrowly cylindric, strongly 5-ribbed, very shortly 5-toothed, in fruit sUgbtly 

 enlarged, split to the base on the outer side (in the Indian species). Corolla- 

 tube very narrowly cylindric ; limb patent, 5-lobed. Stamens included, 

 didynamous ; anthers ovate, cells 2 parallel. Ova/ry 2-celled, cells 1-2- 

 ovuled ; style short, linear ; stigma 1-sided, toothed. Fruit dry, included in 

 the calyx, of 2 elongate-oblong 1-seeded pyrenes. — Species 16, in the warmer 

 parts of America and Africa, 2 extending to India. 



1. B. marrubifolla^ Schauer in DC. Prodr, xi. 558 ; hoary-pubescent, 

 leaves ovate, corolla-tube J-^ in., montb scarcely i in. diam. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1461. 



SciNDB ; Stocks, Dalzell. — Distbib. Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Central Africa. 



Woody, much branched. Leaves 1 by J in., coarsely toothed, hoary-pubescent 

 on both sui-faces ; petiole i in. Spikes 2-5 in., nearly continuons ; flowers alternate; 

 bracts ^ in., lanceolate. Calyx ^ in., suhtruncate, inflated in frnit. Corolla-tube 

 scarcely ^ in. diam. Pyrenes ^-^ in., linear-oblong, black. 



2, B. hyderabadensis^ Walp. Rep. iv. 12; leaves ovate-oblong 

 glabrescent, corolla-tube ^-f m. mouth \ in. diam. Wight III. t. 173 b, 

 tig. 1, and Ic. t. 1462 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 559 ; Thwaites Enum. 241. 

 Verbena hyderabadensis, Heyne in Herb. Rattler ; Wall. Cat. 6318. 



Deooan Pekinsuia and Ceylon ; Eottler, Wight, Thwaites, &c. 



Branches woody, elongate little divided upwards, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-4 

 by li in., serrate, nerves beneath minutely pubescent ; petiole f in. SpiJces 2-6 in., 

 dense ; bracts J in., lanceolate. Calyx \ in., nearly glabrous ; teeth ^j in., linear. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped upwards ; limb pink-purple. Pyrenes exceeding J in., 

 linear-oblong, slightly wider upwards, margined, straw-coloured, smooth on the inner 

 face (the thickened inner layer of tissue becoming white and flaking off). 



V. STACKYTABPKETA, Yahl. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves toothed. Spikes terminal, long, slender (in 

 the Indian species); bracts long or short; bracteoles 0. Calyx narrowly 

 cylindric, shortly 4-5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb oblique, patent, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 2 fertile, included; anther-cells ovate, vertically divaricate. 

 Ovary sini fruit nearly as of Bouehea. — Species 40, in warm America. 



S. indica, YaU Enum. i. 206 ; leaves elliptic serrate nearly glabrous, 

 flowers ultimately somewhat sunk in the thickened raohis, bracts lanceolate 

 as long as the oblique 4-toothed calyx. Thwaites Enum. 241. S. jamai- 

 censis, Vahl I. c. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1860. S. urticifolia, Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 Suppl. 68. Stachytarpha indica & jamaicensis, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 



