LXXIY. VERBENACEiE 381 
Valleys below Simla, Subathoo ; October-December. — Outer Himalaya, from 
the Sutlej to Assam and Burmah, ascending to 3000 ft. 
8. CAXtYQPTEKXS. From the Greek cctryon, a nut, and p ter on, 
a wing, referring to the winged capsule-valves. — E. Asia. 
Caryopteris Wallichiana, Schausr ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 597. An 
erect, nearly glabrous shrub, 4-10 ft. Leaves shortly stalked, 
lanceolate, about 4x1 in., toothed or nearly entire, long-pointed. 
Flowers fragrant, white, tinged with blue, lowest corolla-lobe 
darker, crowded in short cymes forming narrow, terminal panicles. 
Fig. 121. Caryopteris Wallichiana. 
Calyx pubescent, bell-shaped, deeply 5-lobed. Corolla pubescent, 
\ in. long ; tube cylindric, slightly longer than the calyx ; limb 
spreading, \ in. diam., 5-lobed, 4 upper lobes oblong, nearly 
equal, lowest larger, notched. Stamens in unequal pairs, protrud- 
ing. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled ; style long, tip 2-lobed. Fruit 
pubescent, nearly dry, dark blue, globose, 4-lobed, ultimately 
separating into 4 concave valves each winged along one margin 
and carrying a single seed. (Fig. 121.) 
Valleys below Simla; March, April.— Outer Himalaya, ascending to 
5000 ft. 
