Cyclochetlon. | CI. VERBENACEA (STAPF). 275 
broadly elliptic, cordate at the base, 3-4 lin. by 3-34 lin., glabrous. 
Corolla white; tube 34-4 lin. long on the back, 44-54 lin. long in 
front; upper lip 14 to almost 2 lin. long; lobes of lower lip up to 
2} lin. long and almost as broad. Anterior filaments 24 lin., posterior 
2 lin. long; anther-cells obtuse at both ends, 1 lin. long. Ovary 
truncate-obovoid, symmetrical or slightly oblique (seen from the side) ; 
imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled or the anterior larger 
and 2-celled ; style scantily pilose.—C. minutibracteclatum, Engl. ll. ee. 
Tinnea erianthera, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 539. 7. arabica, Baker in 
Kew Bulletin, 1894, 339. 7. sp. Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, ii. 
347. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland: near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1515! Galla 
couutry : in the desert between Dolo and the Dana River, Riva, 1175! Abdallah, 
Keller, 187! 
Mozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Ukamba; in Ulu district, Scott-Elliot, 
6378! German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! 
Also in Southern Arabia, 
2. LANTANA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1142. 
Calyx small, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corojla-tube cylindric ; 
limb patent, obscurely bilabiate; lobes 5, orbicular. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, included in the corolla-tube; anthers ovoid, with parallel 
cells ; ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style short; stigma rather stout ; 
ovules attached at or near the base of the cells. Fruit drupaceous ; 
flesh thin; endocarp 2-celled or splitting into 2 1-seeded pyrenes. 
Seeds exalbuminous.—Erect or subscandent shrubs, rarely herbs. 
Branches usually tetragonal. Leaves opposite or ternate, petioled, 
inciso-crenate, more or less rugose. Spikes dense, peduncled from the 
axils of the leaves; bracts persistent, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers 
small, yellow, white or red, often variable in colour in the same spike. 
Species about 50, mostly Tropical American. 
Bracts lanceolate or linear, 
Leaves opposite . . . . . . . 1. ZL. Camara. 
Leaves ternate . . . . . . . 2. L. antidotalis. 
Bracts ovate. 
Leaves usually two to a node. 
Spikes finally oblong, 
Corolla-limb 7 in. diam, 3. L. viburnoides, 
Corolla-limb 4 in. diam. 4. L. salvifolia. 
Spikes permanently globose . 5. LD. petitiana. 
Leaves usually three to a node 6. L. trifolia. 
Bracts oblong 7. L. concinna, 
1, L. Camara, Linn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 598. An erect 
Shrub, 4-8 ft, high. Branches pubescent, tetragonal, usually armed 
with irregular hooked prickles. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate. 
Ovate, acute, 1-3 in. long, crenate, very scabrous above, densely 
pubescent beneath. Heads permanently globose, 1 in. diam. ; bracts 
lanceolate, | in. long. Corolla-tube slender, pubescent, }-} in. long ; 
