CyclocJiellon.] ci. verbenace^ (staff). 275 



broadly elliptic, cordate at the base, 3-4 lin. by 3-3J lin., glabrous. 

 Corolla white; tube 3^-4 lin. long on the back, 4i^-5i lin. long in 

 front; upper lip IJ to almost 2 lin. long; lobes of "lower lip up to 

 2J lin. long and almost as broad. Anterior filaments 2^^ lin., posterior 

 2 lin. long ; anther-cells obtuse at both ends, 1 lin^ long. Ovary 

 truncate-obovoid, symmetrical or slightly oblique (seen from the side) ; 

 imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled or tlie anterior larger 

 and 2-celled ; style scantily pilose. — C. miitutibracteolatum, Engl. 11. cc. 

 Tinnea erianthera, Vatke' in Linn?ea, xliii. 539. T. arahica. Baker in 

 Kew Bulletin, 1894, 339. T. s]?. Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 

 347. 



xrile Zpand. British Soraaliland : near Maid, Hildebrandf, 1515 ! (ialla 

 country : in the desert between Dolo and the Dana River, Riva, 1175! Abdallab, 

 Keller, 187 ! 



IMLozamba I>lst. British East Africa: Ukamba ; in Ulu 'district, Scot*-Elliol, 

 6378 ! German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! 



Also in Southern Arabia. 



2. LANTANA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1142. 



Calyx small, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric ; 

 limb patent, obscurely bilabiate ; lobes 5, orbicular. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included in the corolla-tube ; anthers ovoid, with parallel 

 cells ; ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style short ; stigma rather stout ; 

 ovules 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. 

 Bracts lanceolate or linear. 



Leaves opposite . . . . . . . 1. i. Camara. 



Leaves ternate . . . . . . . 2. i. antidotalis. 



Bracts ovate. 



Leaves usually two to a node. 

 Spikes finally oblong. 



in. diam. . . . . Z. L. viburnoides. 



4. L. salrifolia. 



Spikes permanently globose . 



Leaves usually three to a node 



Bracts oblong . . . . 



5. L. petifiana. 



6. L. fnfolia. 



7. X. cuncinna. 



1. L. Camara, Linn. ; Jchuuer in DC. Prod. xi. 598. An erect 

 shrub, 4 H ft. high. Branches ^jubescent, tetragonal, usually armed 

 with irregular hooked prickles. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate- 

 ovate, acute, 1-3 in. long, crenate, very scabrous above, densely 

 pubescent beneath. Heads permanently globose, 1 in. diam, ; hnicts 

 lanceolate, J in. long. Corolla-tube slender, pubescent, J-A in. long; 



