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4. Lippia reptans H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 263. 1818. 



Similar to L. nodiflora, densely appressed-strigilose, herbaceous, the stems 

 prostrate or ascending, 2-5 dm. long. Leaves obovate, 2-6 cm. long, obtuse or 

 acutish at the apex, cuneate at the base, coarsely and sharply dentate above the 

 base, usually rather prominently veined, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; peduncles 

 mostly longer than the leaves; heads ovoid, becoming subcylindric and 2 cm. 

 long or less; corolla white. 



Margins of brackish marshes, savannas and pools, Eleuthera and Inagua : Cuba 

 to St. Croix and to Barbadoes ; Jamaica ; Mexico to Brazil. This species is, ap- 

 parently, not certainly distinct from the preceding. LARGER CREEPING LIPPIA. 



6. LANTANA L. Sp. PI. 626. 1753. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with pubescent foliage, the stems sometimes 

 armed with prickles. Leaves opposite, toothed. Flowers in dense peduncled 

 heads or spikes. Calyx membranous, with a truncate or sinuate border. 

 Corolla-tube slender, often curved, sometimes slightly dilated above, the limb 

 more or less 2 -lipped, the lobes 4 or 5. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 

 adnate to about the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled; stigma 

 oblique; ovules solitary in each cavity. Fruit small; drupe-like. Nutlets 2- 

 celled or separating into 2 one-seeded nutlets. [Named from fancied simi- 

 larity to Viburnum Lantana.'} About 60 species, natives of tropical and 

 warm regions. Type species: Lantana Camara L. 



Flowers yellow or orange or changing to orange or red, not in- 



volucrate. 

 Leaves ovate, truncate or subtruncate at the base ; straggling 



shrub. 1. L. ovatifoHa. 



Leaves ovate to lanceolate, narrowed at the base ; erect shrubs. 

 Corolla orange, changing to red ; bracts half as long as 



the corolla-tube. 2. L. Camara. 



Corolla yellow, changing to orange; bracts one-third as 



long as the corolla-tube. 3. L. bahamcnsis. 



Flowers white to lilac, often with a yellow eye or throat, in- 



volucrate. 

 Leaves 24 cm. long. 



Leaves ovate to elliptic or obovate, not more than twice 



as long as wide. 4. L. involucrata. 



Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 2.5 to 3 times as long as 



wide. 5. L. demutata. 



Leaves 10 mm. long or less. 6. L. balsamifera. 



1. Lantana ovatifolia Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 123. 1905. 



Stems woody, little branched, diffusely spreading, 7 dm. long or less, 

 bluntly 4-angled, very rough-pubescent with stiff appressed hairs. Leaves 

 ovate, thick, short-petioled, 5 cm. long or less, very scabrous on the upper sur- 

 face, rough-pubescent with stiff hairs beneath, especially on the 4 to 6 prin- 

 cipal veins on each side of the prominent mid-vein, acute at the apex, abruptly 

 cuneate-narrowed at the obtuse or subtruncate base, the margin low-crenate 

 nearly all around; petioles rather stout, rough, 3-5 mm. long; peduncles 

 axillary, slender, about 4 cm. long, smooth or nearly so when old ; corolla-tube 

 orange-red, the limb yellow, about 6 mm. broad; fruit subglobose, about 4 

 mm. in diameter, black, shining. 



Pine-lands, coppices and scrub-lands. Great Bahama and Andros : Florida. 

 Andros plants were referred by Mrs. Northrop to L. crocea Jacq. OVATE-LEAVED 

 LANTANA. 



2. Lantana Camara L. Sp. PI. 627. 1753. 



A branching shrub 1-1.5 m. tall, rigid-pubescent, nearly or quite unarmed. 

 Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 4-12 em. long, obtuse, acute, or short-acuminate, 



