190 VERBENACE® (Pearson). [ Lantana. 
2. L. salvifolia (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 18, t. 285); an erect, 
much-branched, aromatic shrub, 3-6 ft. high; branches unarmed, 
tetragonal, scabrid, densely pubescent or villous in the younger parts ; 
leaves opposite, or in whorls of 3 or 4, shortly petiolate, oblong- 
ovate, rounded or subcordate at the base, more or less decurrent on 
the petiole, obtuse or subacute, coarsely crenate or crenate-serrate, 
scabrid-pubescent or pubescent and more or less rugose above, 
villous-tomentose, pubescent, scabrid-pubescent or -puberulous on the 
veins beneath, profusely punctate-glandular, with 4—5 ascending 
primary nerves on each side impressed above, prominent beneath, 
4—1} in. long, 3—1 in. broad ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; spike peduncu- 
late, axillary, subglobose, becoming cylindric, 1-1 in. in diam., 
up to 1 in. long ; peduncle acutely tetragonal, scabrid-pubescent, 
shorter or longer than the leaves; bracts herbaceous, imbricate, 
becoming separated in fruit by the elongation of the internodes of 
the axis, deciduous, the lower ones frequently barren, sessile, broadly 
oblong-ovate, acuminate, obtuse, with entire revolute or flat margins, 
5—7-nerved at the base, profusely punctate-glandular, puberulous or 
pubescent, 2-6 lin. long, 1-323 lin. broad ; ealyx tubular, loosely 
investing the base of the corolla-tube, obscurely 2-lobed or 4-toothed, 
glandular, glabrous within, more or less distinctly 4-nerved, 
pubescent without and on the margin, 8-1 lin. long; corolla-tube 
straight, slightly dilated about the middle, pubescent and glandular 
without above the middle, glabrous within, }—} in. long; ovary and 
style glabrous, about 1 lin. long; drupe subglobose, purple, with a 
sweet edible pulp, glabrescent, about 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad; 
endocarp hard, bony, deeply furrowed ; pyrene ovoid, acute, flattened 
at the commissure, 14—14 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. 2,875; Thunb. Prodr. 98, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 459; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i. 827; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
v. 276 partly. L. alba, Mill. ex Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
ii. 126; Walp. Rep. iv. 68; Schauer in DO. Prod. xi. 606. 
L. salviefolia, E. Meyer, Comm. 273; Drége in Linnea xx. 202; 
Walp. Rep. iv. 64; Schauer in DO. Prod. xi. 605. L. rugosa, 
Thunb. Prodr. 98, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 459. L. indica, Roxb. 
Hort. Beng. 46; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1464; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 562. Lippia caffra, Sonder in Linnza, xxiii, 88. 
Camara salviefolia, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 250, OC. 
salviwfolia, var, transvalensis, O. Kuntze, l. ¢. 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Harvey, 572! Zeyher, 1370! 1371! 
Masson ! Alewander ! 
Coast REGION : Mossel Bay Div.; ondry hills on the eastern side of Gauritz 
River, Burchell, 6413! Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, between 
Villa Paul Maria and Uitenhage, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 1873! Ecklon § Zeyher! 
in thickets near Uitenhage, MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1885! amongst other 
shrubs near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 454! near brooks at the foot of Winter- 
hoek Mountains, Krauss, 1134, and without precise locality, Pappe ! Alexandria 
Div. ; Oliphants Hoek, Pappe! Albany Div. ; Fish River Heights, Hutton / near 
Grahamstown, Bolton! and without precise locality, Williamson! Fort Beaufort 
Div.; on grassy hills near the Kat River, Drége, and without precise locality, 
Cooper, 416! 453! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 143! Bastern Frontier, Hutton ! 
