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VERBENA* Melindres. 
Scarlet Buenos Ayres Verbena. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACES. 
VERBENA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 294. 
V. Melindres ; caule procumbente piloso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis grossé 
serratis calycibusque hispidis, floribus corymbosis, laciniis corolla: om- 
nibus emarginatis. 
.V. Melindres. Gillies MSS. 
Herba diffusa, perennis? caulibus teretibus, ascendentibus, pilosis. Folia 
opposita, oblongo-lanceolata, grosse serrata, in petiolo breve attenuata, 
utrinque presertim ad venas hispida. Flores in spicd corymbosé dispositi, 
pedunculati. Bractews hispide, subulate, calyce breviores. Calyx his- 
pidus. Corolla calyce longior, pulchre coccinea ; laciniis planis, oblongis, 
emarginatis, inferiore majore. — 
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This and a number of similar undescribed Chilian 
and Buenos Ayrean species of Verbena, have long been 
familiar to us in the form of dried specimens; but we 
have never before had an opportunity of seeing it alive. 
The plant from which the accompanying drawing was 
made was communicated on the 20th of June last by 
Mr. Harrison, Gardener to the Earl of Egremont, in whose 
Garden at Petworth it then flowered in great beauty for 
the first time. It is a native of the plains of the Pampas 
of Buenos Ayres, where we learn from our friend Dr. Gillies 
it is very common: it is also found in the provinces of 
Cordova and San Luis. 
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* Said by De Theis to be an alteration of ferfaen, the Celtic name of 
the plant. Melindres is the vernacular appellation of this species in the 
province of Buenos Ayres. 
