Lantana.] VERBEXACEJE. 217 



L. crcnulaia. Otto and Diotr. ; P. B. I. iv, 563.— A shrub with ovate 

 lanceolate finely crenulatod leaves, their upper surfacos very scabrid • 

 bracts narrowly oblong or subspathulate, scabridly hairy ; corolla' 

 yellow to orange - Hecorded by both Koylo ami Falconor as occurring' 

 in N". W. India, and by Thomson as cultivated at Moradabad. It lia9 

 also been found in S. India. It is no doubt an introduction, but from 

 what country is uncertain. 



2. LIPPIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit, iv, 563. 



Calyx distinctly lobed or toothed, Fruit small dry, separating into 

 two 1-seeded pyrenes ; otherwise as in Lantana.— Species about 60, 

 chietly in Trop. America, of which two extend to India. 



L. nodiflora, Rich, in Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii, 15 ; F. B. I. iv, 563 • 



Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 378; Prain Beng. fl. 825; Cooke Fl. Bomb, 

 ii, 420. Verbena nodiflora, Linn.: Roxb. Hort. Beng. 4. Zapauia nodiflora 

 Lamk.; Royle III. 299. 



A widely creeping much branched perennial herb, branches usually root- 

 ing at the nodes, subqnadrangular, clothed with minute appressed 

 white hairs attached by their middle, or sometimes almost glabrous. 

 Leaves subsessile, £-1 inch long, spathulate, cuneate and entire at the 

 base, sharply serrate at the rounded apex, minutely strigose on both 

 surfaces. Flotvers sessile, arranged in dense globose peduncled axillary 

 heads, elongating after flowering into oblong spikes ; peduncles 1 3 in. 

 usually from the axil of one only of each pair of leaves ; bracts ~ in. 

 long, broadly elliptic or obovate, mucronate, glabrous, base cuneate. 

 Calyx T \ in. long, membranous, compressed, 2-lobed, hairy outside, 

 closely covering the fruit, the 2 acuminate lobes projecting above in. 

 Corolla white or pale-pink t4j-$ in. long, falling off as a calyptra as the 

 fruit ripens ; upper lip bifid, lower 3-lobed. Fruit less than fa in. in 

 diam., dry, separating into two 1-seeded plano-convex glabrous pyrenes. 



A very common plant within the upper Gangetic Plain and found usually 

 in moist places. Distrib. Throughout the greater part of India and 

 in Ceylon, and in all tropical and warm-temperate regions including 

 the Mediterranean region .^ In North India the plant is used medicin- 

 ally, being considered cooling. 



L. citriodora, H B. and K. (Aloysia citriodora, Ort.) is the well-known 

 1 Lemon-scented verbena ' and a native of South America. It is largely 

 grown in the gardens of North India. 



3. VERBENA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 565. 



Herbs or andershrobs, usually pubescent. Leaves opposite or 

 ternately whorled, toothed or pinnatirid. Floxcers small, in terminal 

 simple or corymbose spikes, bracts small, bracteoles none. Calyx-tube 



