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LXXIV. VERBENACE.E 
LXXIV. VERBENACE^E 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, usually simple ; stipules 
none. Mowers 2-sexual, more or less irregular, in spikes, racemes 
or cymes. Calyx free, persistent, often enlarged in fruit ; tube 
bell-shaped or tubular, sometimes very short ; limb 4- or 5-lobed 
or toothed, rarely entire and spreading. Corolla hypogynous ; 
tube usually nearly cylindric, oLen curved ; limb 5- or 4-lobed, 
sometimes 2-lipped, lobes spreading or erect, usually unequal. 
Stamens 4, usually in unequal pairs, attached to the corolla-tube, 
alternate with the lobes ; filaments free, anthers 2-celled, never 
cohering in pairs. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary free, sessile, 
1 -celled when young, usually becoming 2- or 4-celled when 
mature ; style terminal, simple, tip 2-lobed or entire ; ovules 4, 
rarely 2 or 1. Fruit usually drupe-like, sometimes dry, rarely 
capsular, more or less enclosed by the calyx-tube, usually con- 
taining 4 one-seeded nutlets. — An Order widely dispersed in nearly 
all warm and temperate regions. 
Flowers in long, slender spikes or racemes. 
Flowers stalked. Calyx-teeth unequal, 3 lower long, 
2 upper minute .1. 
Flowers sessile. Calyx-teeth equal . . . .4. 
Flowers in ovoid or oblong heads. 
An erect shrub. Flowers ^ in. long . . . .2. 
A creeping herb. Flowers ^ in. long . . . .3. 
Flowers in cymes. 
Cymes axillary. 
Leaves tomentose. Flowers hardly | in. long. Calyx- 
limb erect, 4-toothed ...... 5. 
Leaves glabrous. Flowers f in. long. Calyx limb 
spreading, entire, very large . . . . .7. 
Cymes aggregated in narrow, terminal panicles. 
Leaves digitate ; leaflets 3-5 6. 
Leaves simple, lanceolate 8. 
Phry'ma. 
Verbena. 
Lantana. 
Lippia. 
Callicarpa. 
Holmskioldia. 
Vitex. 
Caryopteris. 
1. PHRYMA. Etymology obscure. — Central and E. Asia, 
N. America. — A single species. 
Phryma leptostachya, Linn.; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 562. A thinly 
hairy, erect herb, 1-2 ft. Leaves stalked, ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 in., 
toothed. Flowers in. long, pale pink, in long, slender racemes. 
Calyx tubular, prominently 5-ribbed; teeth 5, unequal, 3 lower 
long, linear, becoming hooked in fruit, 2 upper minute. Corolla- 
tube cylindric ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, concave, notched, 
lower larger, somewhat spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens in unequal 
pairs, included. Ovary 1-celled ; style 2-lobed. Fruit dry, oblong,, 
enclosed in the reflexed calyx ; seed solitary, loose within the 
membranous pericarp. 
