XOVll. Viilil3ENACB.E. 419 



in opposite axils, 4-sided, slender, hairy, somewhat thickened upwards ; 

 bracts reaching | in. long, ovate, acuminate, softly hairy on both sides, 

 smaller upwards. Calyx y^^ in. long, truncate, membranous, very hairy. 

 Corolla light-purple with a yellowish tube, hairy outside ; tube ^ in. 

 long, cylindric, often slightly swollen over the stamens ; limb 5 in. 

 across ; lobes 4, rounded, spreading. Filaments very short, slender. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style short, about gJ^, in. long. Drupe ^ in. in diam., 

 purple, ri. B. I. V. 4, p. 562; Grab. Cat. p. 156; Wight, Icon. 

 1. 1464; Trim. Yl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 346 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 267 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 358. Lantana alba, 

 Scbauer, in DC. Prodr. v. 11 (1847) p. 606; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 198.— 

 Flowers : Sept.-Jan. 



Not very common. Konkan : Stocks ! Deccan : thinly scattered, Dalzell cj" 

 Gibson ; Schivneri fort, Junnar, Kanifkar ! S. M. Country : Dharwar, Graham, 

 Dalzell Sf Gibson. Gujarat: Chandod, Kanitkar\; Surat, Kanitkarl — Distrib. 

 Throughout India ; Ceylon, Beluchistan, Trop. Africa. 



Lantana Camara, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 627. A straggling shrub 

 with an odor of black currants, numerous recurved prickles on the 

 branches and orange-colored flowers, a native of Tropical America, has 

 run wild in many parts of the Bombay Presidency and, from the rapidity 

 with which it is propagated and the difficulty of eradicating it when 

 established, seems likely to become a serious evil. Introduced into 

 Ceylon in 1824 it spread throughout the moist low country often to the 

 exclusion of all other plants. Recently cross-bred varieties of the plant 

 with variously colored flowers, varying from pure white to dark crimson, 

 have been introduced into gardens. Woodrow (Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, 

 p. 420) recommends that the pruning-shears should be applied im- 

 mediately after flowering to prevent seed ripening and that all seedling 

 plants should be destroyed. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 562 ; A¥oodr. in Joui'n. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 358. Lantana aculeata, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 

 p. 627 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 68. — Flowers : More or less throughout 

 the vear. Vern. Tdntdni. 



2. LIPPIA, Linn. 



Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely herbs ; the only Bombay species a 

 prostrate herb with stems widely creeping and rooting at the nodes. 

 Leaves small, opposite, serrate. Flowers small, in dense long- stalked, 

 axillary heads ; bracts small ; bracteoles 0. Calyx small, membranous, 

 2-4-lobed, ultimately 2-valved, enclosing or sometimes adhering to the 

 fruit. Corolla-tube cylindric, straight or curved ; limb oblique, more or 

 less 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-fid, emargiuate or 2-lobed ; lower lip 3-lobed. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anthers ovate Avith parallel cells. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, erect from the base or 

 laterally attached near the base of the cell ; style short ; stigma oblique, 

 subcapitate. Fruit small, with a hard dry epicarp, enclosed in the 

 slightly accrescent calyx ; endocarp hard and bony, easily separable into 

 two 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds exalbuminous ; radicle inferior. — Distrib. 

 Chiefly Tropical America and Africa ; species 110. 



