9. Lautawa] 82. VEBBENACEJE. [11. Stmphobbma. 



9. Lantana, L. 



Rambling pubescent scabrous or prickly shrubs with 4- 

 angled branches, crenate, often rugose leaves, and small flowers 

 in peduncled* olten capitate spikes. Bracts exceeding the 

 membranous truncate or sinuate- toothed calyx. St. 4 

 didynamous included. Ovary 2-celled. Drupe with 2 1-ceUel 

 pyrenes. 



1. L. indica, Roxb. 



A shrub with adpressed scabrid-pubescent stems and 

 branches, cordate serrate rugose leaves 3-4* by 2-3" and 

 light-purple scentless flowers in numerous axillary ovate 

 heads. 



Chota Nagpur, Wood's list. 



Fla. and Fr, chiefly in the rains. 



2. L. aculeata, L. Syn. L. Camara, L. 



A straggling or scandent shrub with small recurved 

 prickles on the branches. L. much as in last or smaller. 

 Fls. orange coloured with pink tube, strongly scented. 



An American shrub widely spread in some parts of India, occasionally 

 semi-naturalized in Chota Nagpur (0. g. about Chorparan). 



Fls. and Fr. principally in the rainy season. 



It makes an excellent hedge if continually cut back, and grows freely 

 from cuttings. 



liippia geminata, H.B. and K., occurs in Wood's list without remark 

 or locality. It is an erect shrub M so closely resembling Lantana indica 

 that without fruit it ie"~dlfficult to distinguish," C. B. Clarice. .Branches 

 and L. softly strigose. L. ovate-oblong crenate. Tedwnclez raoe^ly 

 opposite oracts ovate acuminate, softly hairy. 



11* Symphorema, Roxb. 

 i. S. polyandrum, Wight. 



A large sub-scandent shrub with ovate villous coarsely 

 toothed leaves usually 4-5" long reaching 8-9* by 4*. Easily 



