XCV. VERBENACEiE. 
1165 
Calyx small, open, 5-fid. Corolla small. Fruit drupaceous, soon dry. 
Leaves small and distant. Flowers solitary in the axils .... 5. Spartothamxus. 
Calyx 5-fid. Corolla small. Ovary 2-eelled, 1 ovule in each cell. 
Drupe almost dry, enclosed in the calyx. Herbs with hard thin 
branches. Leaves small. Flowers 1 to 5, shortly pedicellate in the 
axils 6. Nesogenes. 
Tribe II. Verbenere .— Ovules ascending from the base of the cells. Flowers in racemes or 
spikes , sometimes contracted, into heads, solitary within each bract , without bracteoles. 
Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Spikes dense, usually contrac- 
ted into heads. Fruit a drupe 7. *Lantana. 
Fruit dry, separating into small nuts 8. Lippia. 
Calyx narrowly cylindrical, 5-ribbed. Stamens 4 9. *Stachytarpheta 
Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Spikes elongated . . . .10. Verbena. 
Tribe III. Viticeae.— Inflorescence cymose, centrifugal; cymes paniculate. Drupel-celled. 
Trees or shrubs. 
* Corolla regular. Stamens isomerous, equal Leaves entire. 
Flowers 4-merous. Drupe with 4 pyrenes 11. Callicarpa. 
** Corolla 2-lipped, stamens didynamous. 
* Drupe 1 pyrene, 4-celled. 
Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers small 12. Prejina. 
Leaves entire or toothed. Corolla large 13. Gmelina. 
Leaves digitate or 1-foliolate 14. Vitex. 
** Drupe i-partite or by abortion reduced to 1 segment. Leaves simple. 
Stamens 4 didynamous. long, exserted. Flowers large 15. Faradaya. 
Stamens long, fruiting calyx enlarged 10. Clerodendrox. 
Tribe IV. Avicenniere. — Fruit a 2-valved capsule. Seed solitary, without integuments; 
embryo with large folded cotyledons. 
Single genus - ... 17. Avicennia. 
1. NEWCASTLIA, F. v. M. 
(After Duke of Newcastle.) 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate in the bud. Corolla-tube campanulate, 
the limb of 5 nearly equal lobes. Stamens 5 ; anthers without appendages. 
Ovary small, completely 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell laterally attached 
above the middle. Style slender, entire, or minutely 2-lobed. Fruit not 
exceeding the calyx, not succulent, apparently separating into 4 nuts. — Densely 
woolly or cottony shrubs. Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers opposite and 
sessile, in dense terminal woolly spikes. Bracts and bracteoles small and 
deciduous. 
The genus is endemic in Australia, aud closely allied to Physopsis and Mallopliora, differing 
from them chiefly in the 5-merous flowers. 
Flowers in rather long spikes. Corolla-lobes short. Stamens shorter than 
the corolla 1. N. cladotncha. 
Flowers in heads 2. N. cephalantha. 
1. N. cladotricha (branched-hairs), F. v. M. in Hook. Keiv Journ. ix. 22, 
Fvarjm. i. 184, t. i. and iii. 21 ; Benth. FI. Ausbr. v. 40. An erect shrub, attaining 2 
to 3 ft., densely clothed with white or rust-coloured woolly branching hairs, and 
strongly scented. Leaves sessile, narrow-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
rounded at the base, the margins slightly recurved, f to above 1 in. long, thick, 
very rugose, reticulate underneath, loosely hirsute or tomentose on both sides 
with branched hairs. Flowering spikes at first short and dense but lengthening 
sometimes to 2 in. and interrupted. Bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, imbricate 
in the very young spike, but falling off early. Calyx about 1^ line long, very 
woolly, the lobes rather shorter than the tube. Corolla glabrous outside, the 
tube broad, about as long as the calyx, lobes short and spreading. Stamens 
