278 _CI. VERBENACE# (BAKER). [ Lantana. 
pubescent beneath. Spikes solitary from the axil of each leaf, shortly 
peduncled, at first globose, finally oblong; bracts green, ovate, acute, 
hairy, the lower } in. long. Corolla pink or lilac, with a yellow eye; 
tube } in. long; limb } in. diam. Drupe purple.—Bot. Mag. t. 
1449; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 563. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Rowland ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2207 } 
Niamniam ; Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 3749! 
A navive of Tropical America, also naturalised in Tropical Asia. 
7. L. concinna, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 223. A much- 
branched erect shrub. Branches very slender, pubescent. Leaves 
opposite, petioled, ovate, $3 in. long, crenate, rugose, green on both 
surfaces, slightly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath. Heads 
globose, 4 in. diam., solitary, on ascending peduncles 1-2 in. long from 
the axils of the leaves; bracts oblong, foliaceous, ascending, pubescent, 
fin. long. Calyx small. Corolla-tube cylindrical, pilose, 4 in. long; 
lobes orbicular, patent. 
Mile Land. British Somaliland: Wadaba; Jdiss Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort- 
Phillips! 
3. LIPPIA, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1142. 
Calyx small, membranous, 2—4-lobed, compressed and 2-keeled in 
the Tropical African species. Corolla-tube cylindrical; limb patent, 
obscurely bilabiate, with 4 round lobes. Stamens didynamous, inserted 
about the middle of the corolla, included or just exserted. Ovary 2- 
celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style short; stigma oblique or recurved ; ovules 
inserted at or near the base of the cells. Fruit without any fleshy 
layer outside the two bony pyrenes. Seeds exalbuminous.—Under- 
shrubs, rarely herbs, usually more or less hairy and glandular. Leaves 
opposite, ternate or verticillate. Spikes dense, small, globose or oblong 
in the Tropical African species. Flowers small, each subtended by 2 
persistent bract. 
Species about 60 ; mostly Tropical American. 
Trailing herb rooting at the nodes 
Erect undershrubs. 
Bracts orbicular, obtuse. 
Peduneles very short . 
- Ll. ZL, nediflora, 
2. L. Oatesii. 
Peduncles long , . 38 L. Radula, 
Bracts cuspidate. 
Leaves small, orbicular or obovate 4. L. somalensis. 
Leaves small, oblong, rugose . . . 5. L. asperifolia. 
Leaves larger, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, scarcely 
rugose . 6. L. adoensis. 
Bracts acuminate, 
Leaves opposite . 7. L. ukambensis. 
Leaves ternate 8. L. Burtonii. 
Bracts acute . . . . 9. L. plicata. 
