418 XCVII. VERBE^fACE.E. 



Caljx 2-4-lobed or toothed ; fruit dry, bard, 

 partially dehiscent ; a prostrate herb (the 



only Bombay species) 2. Lippu. 



Calyx I iu. long. 



Small shrubs ; perfect staineus 4, didy- 



naiuoua 3. Bouciiea. 



A herb; perfect stamens 2 4. Staciiytakpheta. 



Fruit with two 2-seeded pyrenes 5. Puiva. 



lufloresience cyniose, centrifugal. 



Cymes lax, paniculate ; trees or shrubs. 



Corolla regular ; stamens isomerous, equal ; leaves 

 simple. 



Calyx small, not accrescent in fruit ; corolla 

 purple or red; fruit with four 1 -seeded 



pyrenes 6. Callicaepa. 



Calyx accrescent in fruit ; corolla white ; 



fruit with one 4-celled )iyreue 7. Tectona. 



Corolla 2-lipped ; stamens 4, didynamous. 

 Fruit with one normally 4-celled pyrene. 

 Leaves simple, entire or to(jthed. 



Flowers large, 1 in. long or more ... 8. Gjiklina. 



Flowers small D. Pkemna. 



Leaves digitate lU. Vitex. 



Fruit with four 1-seeded pyrenes ; leaves 



simple 11. Ci-ekouknduo.\. 



Cymes densely capitate; trees or shrubs. 



Cymes 3-y-flowered ; bracts of flower-heads large, 

 forming an involucre ; calyx 3-8-toothed ; 



fruit small, nearly dry 12. SyMriioiiEMA. 



Cymes many-flowered ; bracts shorter than the 

 calyx; calyx 5-iDartite 13. Avicennia. 



1. LANTANA, Liuii. 



Rambling pubescent or glabrous shrubs ; branches 4-angled, some- 

 times prickly. Leaves usually simple, opposite, petiolate, crenate, ofteu 

 rugose. Flowers in pedunculate, capitate, ovoid or cyliudric spikes ; 

 bracts ovate, conspicuous, longer than the calyx ; braeteoles 0. Calyx 

 small, membranous, truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla-tube slender, 

 cylindric ; lobes 4-5, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted about 

 the middle of the tube, included ; anthers broadly oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovule solitary in each cell, erect from the base or attached laterally 

 close to the base of each cell; style short; stigma oblique, subcapitate. 

 Fruit drupaceous with a more or less fleshy mesocarp : endocarp hard, 

 separating when ripe into two 1-celled 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds e.\- 

 albuminous ; radicle inferior.' — Disteib. Mostly Tropical American ; 

 several introduced into the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 

 World ; species about 50. 



1. Lantana indica, Ro.vh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 40. A shrub 

 3-8 ft. high ; branches quadrangular, strigosely hairy, yellowish-brown. 

 Leaves 1|-2| by 1-1^ in., opposite or in whorls of 3, ovate, acute or 

 subobtuse, crenate-serrate, rugose and finely pubescent above, softly 

 white-pubescent or subviilous beneath, rounded but usually suddenly 

 narrowed at the base ; petioles ^— | in. long. Flowers odorless, sessile, 

 in axillary pedunculate ovoid heads |-| in. long, lenuthening out into 

 short spikes and elongating in fruit : i)eduncles 1-3^ in. Imig, usually 



