VERBENA Lamberti ; var. rosea.
Drummond’s Pink-flowered Vervain.
Linnean Class and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Natural Order. VERBENACEiE. Brown prodr. \ .p . 510.
VER B EN A . Suprà fol, 9.
V. Lamberti, tetrandra, decumbens, piloslssima; foliis lobatis inciso-dentatisque,
spica elongatâ laxâ squarrosa, calycibus hispidis bracteas superantibus,
corollæ lobis obcordatis, capsulis scrobiculatis.
Verbena Lamberti. Sims in bot. mag. t. 2200.
V. bracteosa. P u rsh.fi. amer. 2. p. 416. (baud verò A/icA.)
V. Aubletia. Ker in bot. reg. t. 294. nec aliorum.
¡i. rosea, caule magis erecto, corollis roseis.
Verbena Drummondi. Hort.
The whole plant copiously clothed with spreading bristly
hairs. Root perennial. Stems ascending, quadrangular,
varying from a span to a foot high. Leaves opposite, stalked,
ovate-oblong, tapering towards the apex, 3-nerved, deeply
lobed and toothed; the lobes and teeth rather acute, about
two inches long, and an inch in breadth, cuneate at the
base; upper ones narrower, lanceolate, acute. Petioles an
inch and a half long, linear, channelled above. Spikes terminal,
solitary, varying from 3 to 6 inches long, loosely imbricated.
Flowers sessile, fragrant, with the odour of honey.
Bractes lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the calyx, which
is tubular, half an inch long, 5-angular, and copiously
bristly, with five slender straight awl-shaped teeth, of which
the two upper ones are shorter. Corolla hypocrateriform,
slightly pubescent, pale p in k ; tube almost filiform, longer
than the c a ly x ; limb spreading, with 5 obcordate, nearly
equal lobes; faux and inside the tube bearded. Stamens 4,
inclosed. Filaments compressed, glabrous. Anthers yellow.
Style inclosed, slender, dilated and flattened towards the
apex. Stigma a gland situated between the prominent lobes