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LANTANA ACULEATA. PRICKLY LANTANAe 
sie-sle-ae-sle-sle-sle-sie se aie sle-skensleshe-slensteusle nate sheattee 
Cla/s @nd Order. 
DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
_ Generic Charaéer. 
Calyx 4-dentatus obfolete. Stigma uncinato-refratum. Drupa 
nucleo 2-loculari. 
Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
LANTANA aculeata foliis oppofitis, caule aculeato ramofo 
{picis hemifphaericis. Lin. Syt. Veg. ed. 14. p> 
566. 
According to Miriuer, this fpecies grows naturally in 
Famaica, and moft of the other Iflands in the Weft-Indies, 
where it is called wild Sage ; the flowers, which are very bril- 
liant, are fucceeded by roundifh berries, which, when ripe, 
turn black, having a pulpy covering over a fingle hard feed. 
It is readily propagated by cuttings. 
Different plants vary greatly in the colour of their bloffoms, 
and the pricklinefs of their ftalks; the prickles are feldom 
found on the young fhoots. 
This plant will bear to be placed abroad in the warmeft = 
_fummer months, the reft of the year it requires artificial heat- 
It is ufually placed in the dry ftove, to which, as it is feldom 
without flowers, it imparts great brilliancy, 
