DIDYNAMTA. ANGIOSPERMIA, 4i 



422. ZAPANIA. Lamark. 



Flowers capitate. — Calix 5-toothed. Corolla : 

 5-lobed. Stamina 4, fertile. Stigma peltately 

 capitate, oblique. Seeds 2, at first covered by 

 an evanescent utriculus. 



Stem shrubby or herbaceous and creeping; capituli 

 axillary, pedunculate; leaves opposite. 



Species. 1. Z. nodifiora. Abundant on the gravelly 

 banks of all the lari^er rivers of the United States from 

 New York south and west. On river banks also near 

 Cafsam in Barbary. DesfoJiiaines. Fior. Atl. vol. i. p. 16. 

 2. Imiceolata. 



An American genus and partly tropical, with the ex- 

 ception of Z. nodifiora. 



423. LANTANA. Z. 



Flowers capitate. — Calix obsoletely 4-tootIi- 

 ed. Border of the corolla 4-lobed, unequal, ori- 

 fice pervious. Stamina within the tube. Stig-- 

 ma uncinately refracted. Drupes aggregated; 

 nut bilocular, even, 2-seeded. 



Mostly shrubs; stems smooth or aculeate; leaves oppo- 

 site and ternate; flowers yellow, fulvous, purple, red or 

 white, collected in axillary pedunculated capituli, eacii 

 flower bracteate. 



Species. 1. L,. Cainara? In Florida. Bartram^lTO,- 

 vels, p. 103. — A tropical genus. 



424. CAPRAPJA. L. 



Calix 5-parted, Corolla subcampanulate, al- 

 most equally 5-cleft. Capsule 2-valved, 2-cel' 

 led, many-seeded. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves opposite and ternately 

 verticillate, flowers axillary or terminally racemose. 

 Scarcely a natural genus? 



Species. 1. C. multijida. Obs. Annual: leaves plnnati- 

 fid, opposite and ternate, ultimate lobe trlfid; peduncles 

 filiform, axillary; segments of the calix subulate; corolla 

 small, tubular-campanulate, almost equally 5-lobed; cap- 

 sule ovate, not acuminated, p.irtly 4-valved. Hab. Along 

 the banks of the Ohio and the other western rivers; cofii- 

 mpn. 2. hijiara- In Florida. Muhl. Catal. 

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