Lantana] — VERBENACE® (Pearson). 189 
VI, LANTANA, Linn, 
Calyx small, membranous, tubular, truncate or lobed. Corolla- 
tube narrow, cylindric, usually somewhat wider above the middle; 
limb spreading, regular or obscurely 2-lipped, with 4-5 broad obtuse 
or emarginate lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted about the 
middle of the tube, included; anthers ovate, with parallel cells. 
Ovary of 1 carpel, 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; ovule erect, inserted at 
or near the base of the cell; style usually short; stigma thickened, 
oblique or sublateral. Fruit drupaceous with more or less fleshy 
mesoearp ; endocarp hard, 2-celled or spontaneously separating when 
ripe into 2 l-celled 1-seeded portions (pyrenes). 
Shrubs, seldom herbs, erect, scabrid, pubescent or tomentose with simple hairs ; 
leaves opposite, toothed, serrate or crenate, usually rugose ; spikes (in the South 
African species) axillary, pedunculate, many-flowered, contracted into small 
subglobose or cylindric heads ; flowers red, orange, white or variegated, small or 
medium-sized, sessile, solitary in the axils of the bracts; bracts ovate or oblong, 
broad at the base; bracteoles minute, or 0, 
Species about 50, mostly Tropical American; several extensively introduced 
into the Tropical and sub-Tropical regions of the Old World; 3 in South Africa, 
including 1 introduced. 
Branches unarmed : 
Calyx prominently 4-ribbed ; bracts not exceeding 
14 lin. long ... at ee yee ae re 
Calyx not ribbed; bracts (at least the lower ones) 
exceeding 2 lin, long ise oe 
Branches armed ss 
1. L. galpiniana (H. H. W. Pearson) ; an erect, branched leafy 
shrub; branches unarmed, prominently tetragonal, scabrid, with 
striated reddish-brown bark, pubescent in the young parts; inter- 
nodes 1-2 in. long ; leaves opposite, bearing in their axils short 
leafy branches, shortly petiolate or subsessile, oblong-ovate, some- 
what rounded or narrowed at the base, obtuse, with crenate-serrate 
revolute and thickened margins, scabrid and rugose above, scabrid- 
pubescent on the midrib and primary and secondary nerves beneath, 
profusely punctate-glandular, with 4-5 curved ascending primary 
nerves on each side impressed above, very prominent beneath, 
8-11 in, long, 1-3 in. broad; petiole not exceeding 2 lin. long ; 
spikes 1-3 in the leaf-axils, subglobose or cylindric, up to 23 lin. in 
diam. ; peduncle pubescent, shorter than the leaves; bracts crowded, 
imbricate, obovate or subcuneate, with a truncate base, abruptly 
acuminate, pubescent towards the apex and along the margins, 
1-12 lin. long, about 2 lin. broad ; calyx shortly 2-lobed, with 
4 prominent ribs, densely pubescent without, glabrous within, 
1_8 lin, long; lobes rounded ; corolla pubescent without in the upper 
eae : as 
part, glabrous within, slightly exceeding the bract, about 1} lin. long ; 
young fruit oblong, apiculate owing to the persistent base of the style, 
drupaceous, glabrous. 
Katanani Region: Transvaal ; Johannesburg, Jeppes Town Ridges, 6000 ft., 
Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6165 ! 
(1) galpiniana, 
(2) salvifolia. 
(3) Camara, 
