94 XCII. VERBENACEJE. [ Lantana. 
1. LANTANA. Linn. 
Calyx small and thin, truncate or sinuately toothed. Corolla-tube 
slender; the limb spre eading, 4- or 5-lobed, nearly regular or slightly 
2-li ped. Stamens 4, included in the tube. Ovary 2-celled, with one 
ovule in each cell erect from the base. Fruit a more or less succulent 
A considerable genus, chiefly from tropical or — dn A with ae or three 
Asiatic or African species, which however may also have been of Americ n c. 
ovary in this and the following genus, as shown by Bocquillon, although a 
taining only 2 cells corresponding to the half-cells of Jib genera, is yet bica Palea 
one half only of each carpel Lbs developed, 
1. L. Camara, Lin n DC. Prod. xi. 598. A tall shrub 
with long weak Bhinclies, fat ead with short recurved prickles, 
and more or less hai aves petiolate, ovate or slightly cordate, | 
crenate, 2 to 3 in. long, wrinkled es very rough with short stiff hairs. 
Flowers yellow or orange, turning to a dee =P red; the heads not . 
lengthening into spikes. Br vole faciie ate, shorter than the | 
escaping tom gard Ardens, now naturalised o Fco and Clarence rivers, eckler, > 
ably in other parts of N. S. Wal d Quceusland. As already obe 
in my “ Flora Hongkongensis," the species ‘should probably include as varieties several — 
of those described by Schauer, in DC. Prod. xi. 597 and 598, as distinct. 
2. LIPPIA. Linn. 
(Zapania, Scop.) 
Calyx membranous, either flattened with 2 keels or wings and | 
2-lobed, each lobe eit ther entire w^ ie balay or the da calyx more | 
Leaves vU 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, a few species of which, apelna the two Nee 
ones, are also more or less widely spread over the warmer of the Old World. - 
uillon's character of the genus (Revue, p. 147), taken rolek from the examina- 
tion of a dige pg will not apply to a large portion of the genus, including the - 
commonest species of all, L. nodiflora ; * 
