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— Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. ; Jamaica !, all coll., a sea-side plant ; Antigua !, Nichols. ; 

 [Bermudas! and southern United States to Buenos Ay res ! ; Spain ! and Transcaucasia to 

 the Cape !]. 



11. Ii. reptans, Kth. Suffrutescent, radicant below; down appressed, affixed at the 

 middle; leaves spathulate, serrate above, penninerved; heads ovoid-globose, at length 

 oblong : peduncles axillary, single, as long as or exceeding the leaves : bracts ovate- 

 rouudish, cuneate at the base, poiutleted, about as long as tbe whitish corolla ; calyx bicari- 

 nate-compressed, bidentate, ciliate along the keels, little shorter than the corolla-tube. — 

 Leaves 1^"-1", flowering heads 3"'-4'", corolla 2"' long. — Hab. Jamaica!, March; An- 

 tigua !, Wullschl. ; [Haiti to Guadeloupe ! ; Mexico ! to Brazil]. 



*** Erect or diffuse shrubs, aromatic by glands. 



12. la. micromera, Schau. ! Shrubby ; branches slender, glandular-hispidulous ; 

 leaves small, spathulate oblong or elliptical-oblong, subentire or minutely few-serrate near 

 the top, strigose above, hispidulous beneath ; heads subglobose : -peduncles axillary, as long 

 as the short petiole : bracts oval, little exceeded by the " white and variegated " corolla ; 

 calyx bifid, shorter than the corolla-tube. — Gardoquia origanoides, Reichenb. in Sieb. 

 Trin. 86 !— Leaves 3"'-6'", ilosvering heads 3"'-4/", corolla H'" long.— -Hab. S. Vincent !, 

 Guild.; Trinidad!, Sieb.; [Cuba, Haiti! to Guiana!]. 



13. Ij. geminata, Kth. Shrubby; branches virgate, hispidulous-pubescent ; leaves 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, serrulate, rugose, scabrous-hispidulous, usually hoary-tomentose 

 beneath : serratures usually bluutish ; heads subglobose, at length shortly oblong : pe- 

 duncles l(-2) in the axils, as long as the petiole or shorter than the leaf : bracts ovate, 

 poiutleted or pointed, little exceeded by the violet corolla ; calyx small, bifid, one-third as 

 long as the corolla-tube. — Flowering heads 6'" diam. ; corolla-tube 2'" long. 



a. Leaves pointed, 2i"-l"long; peduncles 2"'-5'" long, equalling the petiole; bracts 

 pointleted. 



P. Lockhartii. Leaves pointed, 2"-3" long; peduncles 6"'-12'" long, usually much 

 exceeding the petiole ; bracts pointed. — Lantana Lockhartii, Bon ! — The nutlets in maturity 

 separate just as in o : I find no difference in a Brazilian specimen, nor in the figure of 

 L. Chamissonis, Schau. (Fl. Bras. 10. t. 37. iii.), the flowers of which, however, are said to 

 be white. 



y. microphylla. Leaves blunt, 12"'-6'" long; peduncles 2"'-10'" long, usually exceeding 

 the petiole ; bracts broad, mucronate. — Lantaua lippioides. II. A. ! 



Hab. Bahamas !, Hjalmars., Turk islands (7) ; Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr. {a, fi, y) ; [a, 

 Guadeloupe!, Texas! to Buenos Ayres ! ; y, Cuba! to Guadeloupe!, Mexico! to Peru!]. 



14. Ii. stcechadifolia, Kth. Shrubby, strigose ; branches virgate ; leaves lanceolate- 

 linear, serrate, plaited along the primary veins, hoary-pubescent beneath : serratures mucro- 

 nate ; heads subglobose, at length oblong : peduncles long, axillary, exceeding or equalling the 

 leaf ■. bracts roundish-mucronate, exceeded by the " blue or rosy " corolla ; calyx compressed, 

 bidentate, half as long as the corolla-tube. — Br. Jam. t. S.f. 3. — Verbena, L. Zapania, 

 Pers. — 5'-6'h'gh; leaves 2i"-l", flowering heads 4'", corolla 2'" loug. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 all coll., along roads ; [Cuba ! to Guadeloupe ! ; Mexico ! to Guiana], 



7. LANTANA, Z. 



Character of Lippia, but calyx minutely 4-2-dentate, small, at length excrescent, and 

 fruit drupaceous : drupe with a 2-celled endocarp. — Aromatic shrubs (rarely herbaceous) ; 

 leaves penninerved, rugose, rough ; heads peduncled, axillary. 



Sect. 1. Camara, Cham. — Cells of the putamen remote, with an intermediate cavity. — 

 Shrubs, usually prickly. 



15. Ij. Camara, L. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, pointed, serrate, hispid above, 

 pubescent or glabrescent beneath, about as long as the peduncles ; heads jlattish, exinvo- 

 lucrate : bracts lanceolate, half as long as the corolla -tube ; corolla yellow, changing into 

 red.— SI. t. 195. /. 2. Besc. FL 4. t. 304.; 5. /. 370.— L. aculeata, L— G'-IO' high ; 

 leaves 2"-4", corolla-tube 3'" long ; drupes shining-black, 3"'-2'" diam. — Hab. Bahamas !, 



