VERBENA sororia,
Nepaul Vermin.
V. .te n ., folli. f S p o te l“: ; ,
Verbena sororia. Jio''^V’'° d r .f l.n e p a l .ìp U . benq.p.Anee
Verbena officinalis. Lour, c o c h i n . p. 4^- Hoxb. Iwrt. Oeng.p,
aliormn.
Perennial. Stems several from the same root, in our
nlants above 3 feet high, branching near the top, bluntly
S e d very rough, and slightly hairy. Zearcx opposite,
iinnatifidor^deepiylaciniate, strongly nerved underneath,
T d furrowed on the upper side, very rough to the touch,
attenuated at the base or down the footstalk; segments
acute the points mucronate, deeply, unequally, and sharply
toothed thickly covered with little warts or glands, and
mthcd on bodi sides with short stiff hairs, the margins
f i d - upper leaves generally 3-parted, the segments
f S i n g i less toothed. Phwers terminating the stems
I d branches in elongated spikes, more or less panicled.
P e ^ ^ Z e s , pedicles,Ind cahfv, thickly clothed with shor
h a t X t afe tipped with small glands. A p t e at first
u : Knt Icnathening out as they flower, and becoming
^o n t hefme th f seeds ripem Bractes lanceolate,
Rhout the lencith of the calyx. Pedicles very short,
t a r S ly any. Califx angular, sharply 5-toothed hispidly
S ! io r te r than'the tube of the corolla. Corolla funnel-
r « lilac colour hairy inside and without, the throat
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