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Cotyledons thin ; embryo not germinating till the seed falls. 
Fruit dry, splitting up into 2-4 pyrenes. 
Fertile stamens and pyrenes, 2 each 1. Stachytarpheta. 
Fertile stamens 4. 
Cocci 4 * Verbena. 
Cocci 2 2. Lippia. 
Fruit a small dry indehiscent drupe 3. Nesogenes. 
Fruit a drupe, with bony pyrenes. 
Stigma capitate * Lantana. 
Stigma bifid. 
Filaments very short 4. Premna. 
Filaments long, filiform. 
Leaves simple 5. Clerodendron. 
Leaves uusally digitate 6. Vitex. 
Cotyledons thick ; embryo germinating before the seed falls 7. Avicennia. 
1. STACHYTARPHETA, Vahl. 
Calyx tubular, persistent, compressed, oblique at the apex and 
minutely 4-toothed. Corolla with a long straight or curved cylindrical 
tube and 5 rounded spreading subequal divisions. Stamens 4, didyna- 
mous, included, the upper two without anthers. Ovary 2-celled ; cells 
1-ovulate ; stigma capitate. Fruit included in the persistent calyx- 
tube, splitting up into two pyrenes. — Herbs, with simple opposite 
leaves, the flowers in very long spikes inserted in the hollows of a 
thickened cylindrical rachis. Distrib. Species 40, nearly all Tropical 
American. 
Subglabrous, with blue flowers 
Pilose, with red flowers . . . 
1. S. indica. Vahl ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 564. Annual, 
shrubby at the base, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves membranous, 
obovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, sharply serrated, narrowed gradually 
into a short petiole. Spikes terminal, glabrous, J-l foot long, the 
dilated rachis £ in. thick ; bracts linear or lanceolate, adpressed ; 
flowers inserted in deep hollows of the rachis. Calyx compressed, 
bifid, indistinctly 4-toothed, in. long. Corolla with a tube slightly 
longer than the calyx and a blue limb -i— i in. across, with a white 
throat. S. jamaicensis, Vahl ; DC. Prod. loc. cit.. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelles, a frequent weed. Cosmopolitan in the 
tropics. Verveine bleue. 
* S. mutabilis, Vahl; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 565, a native of 
Tropical America often cultivated, is established in one or two places in 
the Seychelles in the island of Mahe. It is a more robust plant than 
i S. indica , with crenate leaves persistently pilose beneath, stouter pilose 
spikes with larger lanceolate spreading bracts with a long awn, and 
larger rose-red flowers inserted in shallower hollows of the rachis. 
Verveine dfleurs rouges. 
1. S. INDICA. 
* S. MUTABILIS. 
