Lantana, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 89 
purposes, On the Coromandel coast, where it is common, I 
have only found it iw the state of a ramous shrub, 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, obovate, and oval, entire, 
obtuse, very hoary underneath, Panicles terminal, tricho- 
tomous, bearing the flowers in terminal, single, rigid heads, 
Flowers numerous, small, of a dark dull yellow, io ed dry 
almost black. Bractes of the divisions of the panicle, oppo- 
site, ovate’; of the calyx three-fold, one-flowered. Calyx 
five-leaved; the three bractes thereof may be reckoned three 
more. Corol; tube short, bilabiate; upper lip emarginate ; 
the dower one of three deeply divided, equal, expanding seg- 
ments. Filaments from the fissures of the corol. Anthers 
twin. Germ superior, ovate, downy. Style about the Jonah 
of the stamens. Stigma of two, acute points, aon 
LANTANA. Schreb. gen. N. 1026. 
Calyx obscurely four-toothed. Stigma hook- refracted. 
Drupe with a trilocular nut, the lower one sterile, 
L. indies: R. Ess hick. 
Shrubby, straight, four-sided, daniniicle | Leaves cieipoalen, 
cordate, serrate, rugose, Peduneles solitary, axillary, short 
than the leaves. Heads ovate. Bractes ovate-ta nceola 
Nut two-celled, 
A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. B. Heyne sent Sone 
to eapeneniie garden at Calcutta, where the plants thrive lux- 
‘tantly, and blossom during the rains. 
Stem Nesaeds: perennial, erect, four-sided, clothed with 
short hairs, and tinged with dark purple. Branches few, 
and like the stem. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordate, 
swelling on the petioles, serrate, rugose, hairy underneath, 
Speeeegntenrierinis ebay an oa nen aetna 
