216 VERBENACE&. [Lantana. 



didynamous, included, anthers broadly oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 with 1 ovule in each cell, style short, stigma oblique., subcapitate. 

 Fruit a more or less fleshy drupe, containing 2 bony 1-celled 

 pyrenes. — Species about 50, in tropical and subtropical regions, mostly 

 American. 



L. indica, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 46 ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 89; Brandts For. Fl. 

 369 ; Ind. Trees 502 ; F. B. I. iv, 562 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 269 ; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timb. 524 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 379 ; Brain Beng. Fl 824 ; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb, ii, 418 ; L. duhia, Wall. ; Boyle III 300, t. 73, Jig. 2. L. collina 

 Dene, in Jacguem. Voy. Bot. 136, t. 141. L. alba, Schauer ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 369. — Vern. Ghaneri. pdpar-dani (Ajmer). 



A shrub, 3-8 ft. high ; branches roughly hairy, long and straggling, 4 

 angular, sometimes prickly, yellowish brown. Leaves H-2J in. long, 

 opposite or in whorls of 3, ovate, acute or subobtuse, crenate-serjp,te, 

 rugose and finely pubescent on upper surface, softly white-pubescent 

 or subvillous beneath, narrowed or somewhat rounded at the base, 

 petioles 3-f in. long. Flowers inodorous, sessile, arranged in axillary 

 peduncles heads or spikes | f in. long and elongating in fruit ; pedun- 

 cles 1-3^ in., usually in opposite axils, 4-angled, thickening upwards ; 

 "bracts up to f in. long, ovate, acuminate, softly hairy on both sides 

 Calyx ye in. long, truncate, membranous, densely hairy. Corolla with a 

 pale purplish linb ^ in. across, hairy outside ; tube 3 in. long, yellowish ; 

 lohes 4, rounded. Filaments very short. Ovary glabrous. Drupe 

 purple when ripe, enclosed in the thin transparent calyx. 



Plentiful within the area of this flora, in waste places. Flowers during 

 the greater part of the year. Distrib. Throughout the warmer 

 portion of India and in Ceylon, ascending to 3,500 ft. in Kumaon ; also 

 in Upper Burma, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and in Trop. Africa. The 

 leaves are regarded by the natives as a cure for snake-bite. 



L.Camara, Linn.; F.B.I, iv, 562; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 269 ; 

 Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. 524 ; Prain Beng. PI- S24 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 ii, 419. L. aculeata, Linn. ; Eoxb. Hort., Beng. 46. — A large climbing 

 shrub with prickly branches and orange-coloured flowers. It is a native 

 of Trop. America, whence it has spread and become naturalized in 

 many parts of the Old World. It appears to have been introduced 

 into Ceylon about the year 1824, and from there to have spread through- 

 out Peninsular India and northwards as far as Dehra Dun. As an 

 undergrowth in forests, although beneficial to some extent as affording 

 shelter to young trees, it has nevertheless proved itself to be a very 

 troublesome weed in deciduous forests, and very difficult to eradicate. 



L. trifolia, Linn. ; F. B. I. iv, 563 ; Prain Beng. PI. 824. —A small unarmed 

 shrub with usually ternate leaves. This is also a native of Trop. 

 America, and has been recorded as a naturalized plant by Boyle and 



• others fron N. W. India to Ceylon, as well as in E. Bengal. It closely 

 resembles L. indica. 



