808 Verbenaceae. 
attached at or near the base of the cells. Fruit drupaceous; flesh 
thin; endocarp 2-celled or splitting into 2 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds 
exalbuminous. — Erect or subscandent shrubs, rarely herbs. Branches 
usually tetragonal. Leaves opposite or ternate, petioled, inciso-crenate, 
more or less rugose. Spikes dense, peduncled from the axils of the 
leaves; bracts persistent, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers small, yellow, 
white or red, often variable in colour in the same spike. 
Species about 50, mostly Tropical American. 
1133. Lantana Camara L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 627. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg., p.119. — Schauer in DC. Prodrom. XI, 
p- 598. — Lantana aculeata L. Syst. Veg., ed. XV, p. 566 ex parte. — 
Bot. Mag., tab. 96. — Lantana scabrida Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, II, 
p- 352, — An erect shrub, 1,5—3m high. Branches pubescent, tetra- 
gonal, usually armed with irregular hooked prickles. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, 2—6 cm long, crenate, very scabrous 
above, densely pubescent beneath. Heads permanently globose, 2 cm, 
diam.; bracts lanceolate, 5mm long. Corolla-tube slender, pubescent, 
3—6 mm long; limb 4 mm diam. Outer flowers red; inner ones yellow- 
white. Drupe black, shining, the size of a small pea. — Flow. 
February to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. O. D. a. sept. Cultivated every- 
where in gardens as ornamental tree. 
A common species in the Tropics. 
459. (2.) Lippia Linn. 
Calyx membranous, either flattened with 2 keels or wings and 
2-lobed, each lobe either entire or 2-toothed, or the whole calyx 
more equally tubular or globular and 2- or 4-toothed. Corella-tube 
cylindrical or dilated upwards, the limb more or less distinctly 
2-lipped, the upper lip entire or 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed, all the 
lobes flat and spreading. Stamens 4, included in the tube or scarcely 
protruding. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell erect from 
the base. Fruit not succulent, separating more or less readily into 
two indehiscent nuts. — Herbs or shrubs often glandular and aro- 
matic or strong-scented. Leaves opposite or whorled, undivided. 
Flowers small, in simple spikes or heads, each one sessile in the 
axil of a single bract, without bracteoles, the bracts often closely 
imbricate. 
A considerable American genus; species about 70. 
1134. Lippia nodiflora Rich. Tent. Flor. Abyss. II (1847), p. 168. 
— Schauer in DC. Prodrom. XI, p. 585. — Boiss. Flor. O. IV, p. 582. 
