Lantana. VERBENACE.E. 339 



2-G-toothed above the middle, nearly veinless, the midrib prominent : peduncles mostly 

 shorter than the leaves: heads at length eylindraceous, almost half inch thick: bracts 

 rigid, broadly cuneate, abruptly acuminate from the truncate or retuse dilated summit: 

 calyx deeply 2-cleft ; the lobes oblong and emarginate, shorter than the tube of the (white.' ) 

 corolla : fruit oblong-oval. Torr. in Marcy, Hep. 2!):>, t. 17. Zupunia cuneifoliu, Torr. in 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 2:)4. Plains, Nebraska to New Mexico and Arizona. 



L. nodiflora, Michx. Creeping extensively, some brandies ascending, " annual " or 

 probably perennial, cinereous or greenish : leaves cuneate-spatulate or oblanceolate, sessile 

 or nearly so, obscurely veiny or almost veinless, the long tapering base entire, sharply ser- 

 rate from above the middle to the apex : peduncles filiform (1 to 4 inches long), much 

 exceeding the leaves : heads eylindraceous in age, quarter inch thick : bracts mucronate or 

 pointless: lobes of the calyx linear-lanceolate: corolla rose-purple or nearly white, short: 

 fruit globose or didymous. Fl. ii. 15. Zupuma nod (flora. Lam. 111. t. 17. Verbena nod (float, 

 L. ; Sibth. Fl. Grzec. t. 550. Low grounds, Georgia to Texas and southward: also Cali- 

 fornia. (Cosmopolite in torrid zone.) 



L. lanceolata, MicllX. 1. c. Like the preceding, and perhaps passes into it, but greener, 

 minutely and sparsely strigulose : leaves thinner, mostly broader (name therefore inapt), 

 varying from obovate and lanceolate-spatulate to ovate, narrowed at base mostly into a 

 petiole, above sharply serrate, pinnately straight-veined; veins ending in the sinuses: 

 corolla bluish-white. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 041. L. repktns, HBK. 1. c.Y Ztt/xmia lanceoliila, 

 Beck in Am. Jour. Sci. xiv. 284. River banks, E. Fenn. to Illinois and Missouri, soutli to 

 Florida and Texas. (Mex.) 



7. LANTANA, L. (An old name of a Viburnum, transferred by Linnaeus, 

 in view of some resemblance to this genus, which should have retained Plunder's 

 name of Camarci). Shrubs or umlershrubby plants of warm regions; with 

 mostly rugose and somewhat glandular-odorous pinnately veined petioled leaves 

 (not rarely in threes), and axillary pedunculate heads of rather showy small 

 flowers ; in summer. Several species common in gardens, two or three indigenous 

 to our southern borders. 



1. Drupe thin-fleshed or somewhat dry, at least with nutlets contiguous and 

 usually cohering more or less into a 2-celled putamen : stems never prickly. 

 (Transition to Lippia.) 



L. involucrata, L. Cancscent, much branched : leaves obovate-oval or ovate, rounded 

 at the apex, crcnate, rugulose and veiny, scabrous above, soft-tomentose beneath, cuneate 

 at base, rather slender-petioled : peduncles equalling or exceeding the leaf: head hemi- 

 spherical or at length globose, not elongating: bracts silky, ovate, or the outermost some- 

 times oblong, these as long as the (white or lilac) flowers, and forming an involucre. 

 S.Florida (L. imolncrcila, var. FloridtnM, Chapm. ; a form with long peduncles and white 

 flowers). S. borders of Texas (L. odvrata, var. Be dandier i, Torr. Mex. Bound, and L. parvi- 

 Jolia, Raf. 7 ) : a form with less obtuse leaves and white flowers. L. odomta, L. Syst., seems 

 not distinct. (Trop. Am.) 



L. canescens, HBK. Cinereous-canescent throughout with fine and soft strigose pu- 

 bescence : brandies slender : leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and gradually 

 acuminate, with cuneate base, somewhat appressed-serrate, lineate-veincd and minutely 

 rugose, about the length of the slender peduncles : heads ovoid, small, in age short-oblong : 

 bracts ovate and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lax; the exterior larger, spreading and in- 

 volucratc : corolla small, white. Nov. Gen. & Spec. ii. 250. Lippia jxillcsiriis, Benth. Hartw. 

 245. As yet collected only on the Coahuila (Mexican) side of the Rio Grande, Berlandier, 

 Bigelow. (Trop. Am.) 



L. macropoda, Torr. Cinereous with minute strigulose pubescence : stems slender, 

 1 to 3 feet high, herbaceous almost or quite to the base : leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 acute, coarsely and sharply serrate, obtuse or somewhat cuneate at base, petioled, usually 

 scabrous above and slightly canesccnt beneath, not at all rugose-reticulated, the primary 

 veins conspicuous and running straight to the sinuses: peduncles twice or thrice the length 



