340 VERBENACE^E. Lantana. 



of the leaf (2 to 5 inches long) : heads globular, at length oblong : bracts ovate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, nearly equalling the white or purple corolla ; the outermost gradually larger 

 but hardly forming an involucre. Bot. Mcx. Bound. 127. S. W. borders of Texas 

 ( Wright, e.), and adjacent parts of Mexico, Grcyg, Palmer. 



2. Drupe juicy; the 2 nutlets separated, at least at base. Stems sometimes 



prickly or hispid, but this very variable. . 



L. Camara, L. Scabrous and more or less hirsute, 1 to 4 feet high : prickles on the stem 



short and hooked : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, often subcordate, crenate-scrrate, very 



scabrous above, scabrous-hirsute or softer-pubescent beneath (about 2 inches long) : pe- 



duncles rigid, about the length of the leaf : head flat-topped in anthesis ; the rhacliis not 



elongating: bracts lanceolate, strigosc-hirsute, about half the length of the yellow at 



length orange or even flame-colored corolla. Plum. Ic. t. 71 ; Dill. Eltli. t. 50. L. horrida, 



var. pan-ijlora, Schauer in DC. 1. c. ; Torr. 1. c. S. Georgia and Florida, S. Texas and 



southward. (Trop. Am.) 



8. CITHAREXYLUM, L. (Name composed of -/.lOdna, guitar or lyre, 

 and Si'i/Lov, wood, a translation into Greek of the colonial- English Fiddle-wood ; 

 but this name, unfortunately for the etymology, is an English corruption of the 

 earlier French-colonial name, lioisjidele, meaning a wood trustworthy for strength.) 

 Tropical American shrubs or trees ; with somewhat coriaceous leaves, and small 

 flowers on a filiform rhachis, each subtended by a minute bract. 



C. villosum, Jacq. Soft-pubescent or glabrate : leaves oblong-obovate or oblong, entire 

 or occasionally few-toothed above the middle, veiny and witli finely reticulated veinlcts, 

 shining and barely scabrous above, pale and sometimes soft-canescent beneath, biglandular 

 at the narrowed base, tapering into the petiole : racemes declining, loose, but spike-like : 

 flowers very short-pedicelled : corolla white, glabrous externally. Coll. i. 72, & Ic. Rar. 

 t. 118 ; Cliapm. Fl. 009. Key West, S. Florida ; perhaps S. Texas. ( W. Ind., Mcx.) 



9. DURANTA, L. ( Castor Dnrcmtes, wrote upon W. Indian plants in the 

 IGth century.) W. Indian and S. American shrubs, often armed with axillary 

 spines ; one has reached our borders. 



D. Plumieri, Jacq. Minutely pubescent or glabrate : branches 4-angled : leaves obovate, 

 oblong, or ovate, mostly entire, contracted at base into a short petiole : racemes panicled, 

 loose: lower bracts often leafy: calyx-teeth subulate from a broad base: corolla lilac: 

 drupe yellow ; the enclosing persistent calyx also yellowish, closed into a straight or con- 

 torted beak. Tacq. Stirp/t. 17G, fig. 70, & Ic. Rar. t. 502; Bot. Reg. t. 244; Chapm. I.e. 

 D. spinosa & D. iiicrniis, L. ; the branches sometimes spiny, sometimes unarmed. D. Ellisia, 

 Jacq. Amer. t. 170, f. 77, & Hort. Schoenb. iii. t. 99; Bot. Mag. t. 1759. Ellisia uciila, L. 

 Key West, S. Florida, Blodrjett. (Trop. Am.) 



10. GALLIC ARPA, L. (KaUoff, beauty, and xV/.wro s ', fruit: the berry- 

 like drupes ornamental.) -- A rather large E. Asiatic and American genus, chiefly 

 of the warmer regions, one in the Atlantic States ; fl. late summer. Pubescence 



O 



stellular-branched or scurfy. 



C. Americana, L. (FRENCH MULBEHRY.) Shrub low, with scurfy-stellate down and 

 glandular-dotted : leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, obtusely serrate, greenish above, whitish 

 or rusty beneath, acute or cuneate at base : cymes shorter than the petiole, many-flowered : 

 corolla bluish, hardly 2 lines long : fruit violet-colored. Catesb. Car. t. 47 ; Lam. 111. t. 09. 

 Spondi/Iococcns, Mitchell, Nov. Gen. Burrhardki Americana, Duham. Arb. ed. 1, i. t. 44. 

 Rich or moist grounds, Virginia to Texas. (W. Ind.) 



11. AVICENNIA, L. WHITE MANGROVE. (Dedicated to Avicenna, 

 the Latinized name of Tbusina, most illustrious of Arabian physicians ; died in 



