306 THE JOUENAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



C. B. Clarke, in Flora British India, IV, p. 562, (1885) followed Schauer 

 referring the common Indian and Ceylon plant to Lantana Camara L, and 

 citing its previous identifications as Lantana aculeata L. in Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 46, and as L. mixta L. in Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl., 242. 



Trimen, Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon, III, p. 346 (1895), wrote 

 "With regard to the right name for this common weed, L. mixta L. is 

 adopted by Thwaites, and L. Camara L. in Flora British India, IV, 562 ; but 

 our plant is always prickly, and is well represented in the figure quoted by 

 Linnaeus for his L. aculeata (Plukenet, Phyt., t. 233, f. 5), made from a plant 

 then (1696) in cultivation at Hampton Court." 



Cooke, Flora of the Bombay Presidency, II, p. 419 (1905), follows Flora 

 British India in adopting the name L. Camara L. for the prickly species 

 with orange-coloured flowers, and cites L. aculeata L. as a synonym. 



Ceylon botanists have followed Trimen in regarding L, aculeata as dis- 

 tinct from, not a form of, L. Camara. In Ceylon we have, as far as has yet 

 been recorded, only the yellow-red-flowered form of this species. 



T. PETCH. 



