Verbena.] XCV. VERBENACEjE. 1173 
Leaves mostly deeply lobed or divided. Spikes long and slender, with distant 
flowers 1. V. officinalis. 
Leaves narrow, toothed. Spikes rather close, in a terminal cluster or 
panicle • . . 2. V. bonariensis. 
Leaves harsh, oblong-lanceolate, with very prominent veins and sharply 
toothed 3. V. venosa. 
1. V. officinalis (officinal), Linn.] Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 547 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 36. An erect perennial 1 to 3ft. high, with long spreading wiry 
branches, sometimes nearly glabrous, usually with closely appressed hairs, some- 
times more coarsely hirsute, or the inflorescence rough with glandular hairs. 
Lower leaves petiolate, obovate or oblong, coarsely toothed or cut ; upper ones 
either deeply pinnatifid and lobed or toothed, or the uppermost small and 
lanceolate. Flowers usually very small, in slender spikes lengthening often to 
8 or lOin., the lower ones becoming distant as the spike lengthens, the whole 
corolla sometimes not 2 lines long, but in the larger- flowered forms the tube 
about li line, and the lower lip about as long. — R. Br. Prod. 514. 
Hab.: Broadsound and Shoalwater Bay, 11. Brown; Rockingham Bay, Dallacliy ; Suttor 
River, Bowman; Armadilla, IV. Barton. This is a common weed throughout the colony. 
The species is common in a great part of Europe and temperate Asia, in waste places on 
roadsides, &c.; more rare and perhaps introduced into North America, South Africa, and within 
the tropics. 
Var. macrostacJrya, Flowers rather larger, and the spikes very glandular, hirsute, — V. 
macrostachya, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 60 — Peak Downs, F. v. Mueller ; Rockhampton, Bowman. 
;: 2 V. bonariensis (of Buenos Ayres) Linn.; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 541 ; 
Dmth. FI. Austr. v. 36. An erect coarse rigid herb of 2 to 5ft., the stems scarcely 
branched, acutely 4-angled and roughly hispid especially on the angles. Leaves 
sessile, lanceolate or the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, ljto nearly 3in. long, coarsely 
toothed, hirsute, the upper ones distant small and narrow. Flowers in rather 
close spikes often 3in. long, which are usually clustered at the end of the branches 
of a rigid corymbose trichotomous panicle, and generally assume a blueish purple 
hue. Bracts acute, ciliate, hirsute, 1 to 1J line long. Calyx shorter than the 
bract. Corolla-tube shortly exceeding the calyx, the lobes broad and spreading. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. A pest on scrub land. 
*3. V. venosa (nerved), Gill, and Hovh. Bot. Misc. i. Stems erect, 
usually 1 to 2ft. high, arising from creeping stems beneath the surface of the 
ground. Leaves rough, oblong-lanceolate, strongly- veined and sharply-toothed, 
sessile. Spikes oblong, forming a terminal panicle. Calyx and bracts hairy, 
more or less stained with purple. Corolla curved, rich purple, the tube hairy. 
Ovary glabrous. — Bot. Mag. t. 3127. 
Hab. Buenos Ayres. Naturalised in several southern parts. 
11. CALLICARPA, Linn. 
(Referring to the beauty of the fruit). 
Calyx truncate or 4-rarely 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, the limb 
spreading, of 4, rarely 5, lobes, nearly equal. Stamens 4, rarely 5, shortly 
exserted. Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell laterally attached at or above 
the middle ; style filiform, dilated and truncate or very shortly 2-lobed. Fruit a 
small succulent drupe, the endocarp of 4 distinct 1-seeded nuts or pyrenes. Seed 
without albumen. — Shrubs, rarely undershrubs, more or less cottony or woolly 
with stellate hairs or rarely glabrous, and often with numerous resinuous glandular 
dots especially on the under side of the leaves. Leaves opposite, undivided. 
Flowers small, in axillary cymes, with very small bracts. 
A considerable tropical and subtropical genus, chiefly Asiatic, with a few African and 
American species. The genus is most readily distinguished from Prcmna by the inflorescence, 
and by the flowers more regular with isomerous stamens. The differences in the fruit may not 
be constant. — Benth. 
