Stachytaipheta.'] 
CVII. verbenace^e. 
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3 . STACHYTARPHETA, Vahl. 
Low shrubby plants. Leaves toothed. Flowers in tall slender 
axillary spikes, in axils of bracts; rachis hollowed for each flower, 
blue or rose, opening a few at a time. Calyx elongate cylindric, 
4- to 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, limb 
5- lobed. Stamens 2, enclosed. Staminodes 2 or 0. Ovary 
2-celled; ovules solitary; style long exsert. Stigma capitate. 
Fruit cylindric of 2 bony i-seeded pyrenes. Species 40, nearly 
all South American, a few African. 
Low shrubs 1 to 3 ft. tall, glabrous. 
Leaves spathulate serrate in upper part; flowers 
light blue. (1) S. indica 
Leaves oval serrate to base; flowers deep blue . (2) S. jamaicensis 
Shrub 6 ft. tall, tomentose; flowers large, rose pink . (3) S. mutabilis 
(1) S. indica Vahl. Emtm . i, 206. 
Low-branched shrublet, about 1 to 2 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves 
spathulate, serrate in the upper part, 1-5 in. long, 1 in. wide; 
petioles -25 in. long, winged to near base. Spikes slender, 6 to 
8 in. long. Bracts lanceolate cuspidate. Flowers pale blue. 
Corolla *5 in. long, lobes round. Hab. Common especially on the 
sea shores and under coconuts. Confused with S. 'jamaicensis, 
a bigger plant with deep blue flowers, by most botanists. Singapore, 
Changi. Malacca (Cuming); Merlimau (Cantley). Selangor, 
Rantau Panjang (Kloss); Kwala Lumpur. Setul. Kelantan 
river-mouth, sandhills (Ridley). Dislrib. Indo-Malaya. 
(2) S. jamaicensis Vahl, Enum. i. 206. 
Stout, shrubby plant about 3 ft. tall. Leaves oval, serrate to 
base, decurrent on petiole, 3 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles 1 in. 
long. Spikes elongating to 1 ft. long, rather stout, glabrous. 
Corolla deep blue. Hah. Waste ground, often cultivated as a 
low hedge, Singapore. The whole plant -stouter than the last, 
leaves rather larger and thicker, deep green. Flowers deep, not 
pale, blue. Dislrib. South America. Native name : Selasih Dindi. 
(3) S. mutabilis Vahl, Enum. i. 209; Gamble, l.c. 799. 
A stout, woody plant 8 ft. tall, softly tomentose all oyer with 
very long 18 in. or more spikes of rose pink flowers over 1 in. long, 
has occurred as a throwout from gardens in Singapore and Penang, 
but does not seem to establish itself. A native of tropical America, 
occurring sporadically as an alien in Asia and Africa. 
4 . GEUNSIA, Bl. 
Trees (or shrubs) stellate-tomentose. Leaves large entire. 
Flowers small, numerous in peduncled cymes in upper axils. Calyx 
campanulate, 5- to 6-toothed. Corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped, 
lobes 5. Stamens 5 to 6; anthers exsert, Ovary 5 (rarely 4- to 
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