greater lengthening of the fpike, in having a fhrubby, rounded, 

 not annual and fquare Hem, as well as leaves ternate, or fome- 

 times, though rarely, quaternate. The fruit of Lantana 

 trifolia is more pulpy than in any other of the genus, and 

 being of an agreeable flavour, is, as we are informed by Sir 

 Hans Sloan e,. greedily fought after by the children in 

 Jamaica. 



Reichard imagined the plant defcribed by Medicus as 

 L. trifolia, really belonged to annua, becaufe of the flefh- 

 coloured corollas with yellow throat, not changeable ; but as 

 thefe circumftances are common to both fpecies, we fee no 

 reafon to doubt that the plant, of which he has given an account, 

 is the fame with ours, except that he defcribes the flems as being 

 fquare. His plant the firft year grew with two oppofite leaves, 

 but in the fecond year the leaves were all ternate. 



Native of the mountains in the Weft- Indies. Requires 

 the heat of the ftove, but in warm weather mould be removed 

 into the greenhoufe or be allowed plenty of air, in which 

 fituation it will ripen its fruit and continue flowering at the 

 extremity of the fpike at the fame time. 



Introduced by Dr. William Houstoun before 1733* 

 Communicated to us by Meflrs. Lod dices, of Hackney, in 

 Augult laft. 



