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onchea prismatica (Jacq.) Kuntze, an annual resembling Valerianoides, 
but with four perfect stamens, has been found on ballast at Mobile Bay. 
7. VALERIANOIDES Boerh. Herbs, or shrubby plants. Leaf-blades 
toothed. Flowers sessile on a t rachis 
j C 
colored, salverform, slightly 2-lipped 
Stamens 2. 'Staminodia 2.—A bout 40 species, 
of tropie regions. 
V. jamaicensis d pe Plant 
with ee or decumbent branches, 6- iB 
dm. long: leaf-blades elliptic, ore or ov val, 
2-8 cm. long: spikes vi irgate, quill- like: 
ae ee violet, 8-11 mm. lon ng ; limb 7— 
8.5 n vide. [Stac dci me jamaicensis 
(L )v i1]—Pinelands coastal sand-dunes 
and waste-pl , S pen. Fla., Florida Keys, 
S. A.) 
and S Ala POP. L, Mex. C. A., 
8. LANTANA L hr rel 
Leaf-blades toothed. Flowers i Much 24 5d spikes. Calyx ahal 
lowly 2—5-lobed or truncate. Corolla white or colored: tube slightly curved: 
limb irregular. Stamens 4. rupes more or less juicy.—About 60 species, in 
warm and tropical regions.—Spr.-fall or all year S.—SHRUB-VERBENAS. 
e bracted, but not involucrate. 
Ste jene branches prickle-armed : leaf- blades strigose: corolla-tube over 12 mm. 
Stem: a ‘and branches aparmi armed with weak duds or 
less curved prickles: rollas yellow to oran 1. L. Camara. 
Stems and branches COBIoE SN armed with Sout, rigid, : 
hooked prickles: corollas yellow ae purple. 2. L. aculeata. 
Stem and branches not prickle-armed: leaf-blades not stri- 
gose: corolla-tube 10 mm. long or less. 
Plants with prostrate stems and branches: drupes 2.5-3.5 
mm. long. 3. L. depressa. 
NIU with erect stems and branches: drupes 4-5 mm. 
4. L. ovatifolia. 
no diede decidedly ee ate. 
es oo or utish, coarsely toothed: corolla-tube . 
10 m long: 5. L. Sellowiana. 
Leaf-blades rounded or retuse at the apex, crenulate: corolla- 
tube 2-4 mm. 6. L.involucrata. 
1. L. Camara L. Shru nas armed branehes, 10-15 dm. tall: leaf-blades 
ovate to elliptie-ovate, M 7 em. long; corolla usually cream, yellow or pink, 
later E to orange or searlet; limb 
6-8 mm. high.—T'wo forms of this species 
occur in Florida: one with acuminate leaf- 
blades, derived from plants commonly 
cultiv ation appa arently from the Wes t Indies, 
the othe native plant with ete rela- 
tively coarser-toothed leaf-blades.—In " sandy 
n Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex., and Ga. 
L. aculeata Shrub with ead 
and igidly bod branches, 2.5 dm. tall o 
less: leaf- blades ovate, often br oadly bn 3-6 
m. long: corolla yellow, changing to orange 
or purple; limb 7-9 mm. high.—Pinelands, 
and cult. grounds, pen. Fla. Nat. of W. I 
