LAN 



LAN 



It belongs to the class and order Didifnamia 

 nia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 ■ 1'iaUe. 



The characters arc : that the calyx is a one- 

 Ieafed periauthium., very shun, converging, ob- 

 scurely four-looiHed, tubular: the corolla one- 

 petallcd, nearly equal: tube cvlindric, slender, 

 longer than the calyx, raiher oblique: bcrder 

 flat, unequally four-cleft, obtuse: the stamina 

 have four filaments, very small, placed in the 

 nnd--t of the lube of the corolla, very slender, 

 of which two are a little higher : anthers round- 

 ish : the pistillum is a roundish germ : style 

 filiform, short: stigma refracted, sharp down- 

 • like a hook, and as it were obliquely 

 growing to the tip of the style : the pericarpium 

 is a roundish, one-celled drupe : the seed a 

 round-pyramidal, three-celled nut : the lowest 

 cell steril : the kernels solitary, oblong. 



The species cultivated are: 1. L. mista, Vari- 

 ous-flowered Lantana ; S. L. Camara, Various- 

 coloured Lantana ; 3. L. inrolucrala, Round- 

 leaved Lantana; 4. L. melisscefblia, Baum-leav- 

 ed Lantana; 5. L. aculcata, Prickly Lantana; 

 6. L. aurea, Golden-flowered Lantana. 



The first is about five feet in height : the trunk 

 round or roundish, with an ash -coloured bark : 

 the branches at top, several, short, ash-coloured, 

 and from these several others, a Ions: span or. a 

 foot in length, quadrangular, green, hairv: the 

 leaves above bright green and somewhat shining, 

 beneath paler, deeply notched, much wrinkled, 

 and very rugged : whilst the flower is yet closed, 

 the lower part of the border appears of a pale 

 red; when it opens, the lube and upper part of 

 the border are saffron-coloured, but become 

 reddish, and finally dark red : this change of 

 colour begins from the circumference and 

 finishes in the centre : hence the flowers in an 

 umbel not being all opened at once, the middle 

 appears of a saffron yellow, and the circumference 

 of a red colour, whence the name. It is a na- 

 of An. erica. 



The second species has a shrubby stem, a 

 fathom in height, angular, somewhat rugged: 

 the branches subdivided, almost upright, rugged, 

 quadrangular: the brancblets' quadrangular, 

 grooved, strict, hirsute, dark green : the leaves 

 on long p -.ued, spreading, ovate, 



acuminate, serrate, nerved, hirsute : the flowers 

 terminating : the peduncles shorter than the 

 Laves, solitary, angular, grooved, hirsute : the 

 bractes broad-lanceolate, concave, entire, pubes- 

 It is a native of-the West Indies, flower- 

 ing from April to September. 



The third has a round woodv stem, branched, 

 scarcely hairy : the branches opposite : the 

 leaves pelioled, scarcely crenate, membrana- 



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ceous, rigid, less wrinkled than in the others 

 aim d beneath, tomentose: the leaves 



seldom if ever in thn peduncles short : 



the spikes rounded: the bractes huge, >e>s:lc, 

 cordate-ovate, with six or more nerves running 

 in right lines from the centre, all a little exca- 

 vated their whole length, ami tomentose : the 

 flowers whitish, with pale flesh-coloured niar- 

 ginfl. It is a native of the West Indies, li > - 

 crin.: from May to July. 



The fourth species is lower than most of the 

 others, being seldom more than two feet in 

 height : the stem round, ash -coloured, not 

 hairv : the younger branches have bundies of 

 hairs spreading out at top: the leaves opposite, 

 bat sometimes in threes, pettoled, cordate-.! - 

 urinate, more deeply crenate than in the other 

 species, wrinkled, rugged and green on the up- 

 per surface; paler and tomentose-hairy under- 

 neath : the flowers axillary, with three pedun- 

 cles, where there are three leaves .- the bra< 

 oblong, entire, tomentose-hairy, deciduous, 

 differing in size: the colour of the corolla con- 

 stant, and always yellow. It is a native of 

 South America. 



The fifth has the stem in its native situation 

 ten feet high, an inch and a half thick, square 

 from top to bottom, armed with long, strong, 

 reflex prickles, or rather thorns, for they cannot 

 be torn off without injuring the wood ; but in 

 the stove only five orsix feet in height : the leaves 

 ovate-oblong or cordate-oblong, wrinkled, rug- 

 ged, crenate : the peduncles long, with fewer and 

 shorter prickles : the colour of the tube of the co- 

 rolla pale red: border lemon-coloured, changing 

 into an orange and sometimes a deeper colour: 

 the peduncles are terminated by roundish heads 

 of flowers ; those on the outside are first of a 

 bright red or scarlet, and change to a deep pur- 

 ple ; those in the centre arc of a bright yellow, 

 and change to an orange colour. It is a native 

 of the West Indies, flowering from April to 

 November. 



The sixth species has the stem seven feet high, 

 at first obscurely quadrangular, but afterwards 

 round, striated, very thinly beset with prickles, 

 and not hairv : the leaves ovate-oblong or al- 

 most elliptic, bluntly notched about the ed 

 very short stiff hairs at the upper surface, the 

 lower rugged with a harsh down, dark green 

 and shining as if they were varnished : the pe- 

 duncles short: the bractes deciduous, short : the 

 colour of the flower yellow, becoming golden 

 and then saffron-coloured. It is a native of the 

 Bahama LI m Is. 



i 'urc. — These plants are capable of beii.o- 

 raised by seeds and cuttings of the young 

 branches. 



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