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P L A T E CCCCXXXV.
V E R B E N A MUTABILIS.
Changeable-flowered Vervain.
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CLASS IL ORDER L
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives, One Polntal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA infandibuliformis, sub-sequalis, curva.
Calyx unifoliatus, dentatus, truncatus.
Sem. 2, s. 4. nuda. Slam. 2, s. 4.
BLOSSOM funnel-shaped, nearly equal, and curved.
Empalement one-leafed, toothed, and
cut ofi". Seeds 2, sometimes 4, naked. Chives
2, sometimes 4.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
V E E B E N A diandra, filamenta quatuor: spica longissima,
carnosa, nuda: foliis ovatis, basi
productis, dentatis, scabris, viUosis : floribus
imprimis coccineis, denique incarnatis :
caule fruticoso.
V E K E E N A , with two chives and four filaments.
Flower-spike very long, fleshy, and naked.
Leaves ovate, lengthened at tlie base, toothed,
rough, and haiiy. Flowers at first scarlet,
then going off in a flesh colour. Stem
shrubby.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A flower cut open.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
THE native place of the Verbena mutabilis seems rather enveloped in obs«r , ^ : by some >t .s supposed
T b e indigenous to Peru. It is a beautiful plant, and the most desirable Verbena we ^ e acqua.n d
w i t i as it is at least six months in successive bloom. It is one of those Ve.^enas t at, d.tleru.g a h ^ e
ftom the general character of thar genus, has received various titles from d.fterent botan. t s : by Pro
; sor Vahl, in his Enumeratio Plan,arum, it is called Stachytarpheta. The present specs has beea
i e tly figured in the Paradisus Londinensis under .he title of Cymbums mutab.hs, and probably at
l e future period it may again receive another title . but until we can find some bet er path o lead
u s i to he open pla.n of Information, we shall keep iogging on .n the old ^ ^ ^
to every crooked turning that may bewilder us into the mazy labyr.ath of affected Soence. Our
figure was made from a fine plant in the nursery of Messrs, Colville.