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4.— VERBENA LAMBERTI, Sims. MR. LAMBERT’S VERBENA. 
Synonyme. — V. bracteosa, Pursh. ' Specific Character. — Stem quadrangular, hispid. Spike lax, 
Engrating.— Bot. Mag., t. 2200. | solitary. Leaves oblong, sharply toothed. 
Description, &c. — This plant is most probably only a variety of V. Aubletia, to which it is evidently 
very nearly allied. There is, however, a great confusion between these two species, and one called V. Drummondi 
in the nurseries ; particularly as two very different plants appear to be known by the latter name. One of these 
is figured in the second series of Sweet’s British Flower- Garden^ as a variety of V. Lamberti ; but it is extremely 
unlike that species, and bears much more resemblance to V. Teucroides. The other, V. Drummondi, is figured 
in the Botanical Register, as a variety of V. Aubletia, and it has a small loose spike of flowers, which are of a 
pale purplish blue, and are delightfully fragrant. All these plants appear to be natives of North America, and 
they are all hardy in British gardens. They are propagated by cuttings. V. Lamberti is said to have been 
introduced in 1816 ; and V. Drummondi in 1836. 
5.— VERBENA MELINDRES, Gillies. THE 
Synonymes. — V. Cbamaedryfolia, Juss. ; V. veronicsefolia, ; 
Lychnidea veronicajfolia, Feuill. ; Erinus Peruvianus, IVilld. 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg., t. 1184; Bot. Mag. 3333; Sweet’s 
Brit. Flow. Gard., 2nd ser., t. 9 ; The Botanist, vol. 3, t. 127 ; and 
our fig. 1, in PI. 91. 
Specific Character. — Stem ascending, hispidly pilose. Leaves 
Description, &c. — This extremely beautiful species 
SCARLET BUENOS AYRES VERBENA. 
oblong, acute, subpetiolate, grossly serrated, and, as well as the calyx, 
hispid ; upper ones nearly entire. Flowers in a terminal many- 
flowered corymb, which lengthens into a spike after the flowers h,ave 
expanded ; tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx ; segments of 
the limb cuneate and emarginate. 
is a native of Buenos Ayres, and Paraguay, wlience it 
was introduced in 1827 ; and it has since become such a favourite in our flower-gardens, as to be now 
well known in every part of the kingdom. As it hybridises freely, many kinds have been raised from it ; none 
of which, however, are quite so beautiful as the species, though they have the advantage of being much hardier. 
The species itself will not bear an English winter without protection ; but V. M. latifolia is as liardy 
as the common pink. Melindres is the aboriginal name of the plant at Buenos Ayres. 
6 .— VERBENA TEUCROIDES, Gill et Hook. THE GERMANDER-LIKE VERBENA. 
Engravings.— Bot. Mag , t. 3694 ; Paxt. Mag. of Bot., Vol. V., 
p. 248 ; and omfig. 2, in PI. 91. 
Specific Character Stem erect, branched, clothed with rigid 
glandular hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, deeply-cut, sessile. Spike 
elongated, densely flowered. Calyx elongated, and becoming twisted 
with age, only half the length of the tube of the corolla. 
Description, &ec. — When this species of Verbena was first introduced in 1837, it was so highly praised that 
everybody was quite anxious to possess a plant. Experience, however, has shoAvn that it by no means 
deserved the high commendations bestowed upon it, as it is coarse-growing, with weedy foliage, and no 
particular beauty in its flowers. It has, however, the advantage of being hardy, as, thougli it is a native of 
South America, it is only found on the summit of lofty mountains, generally ten thousand feet above the level 
of the sea. 
