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VEBBENACEAE. 



5. LANTANA L. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with pubescent foliage, sometimes armed with 

 prickles. Leaves opposite, toothed, often rugose. Flowers in dense peduncled 

 heads or spikes. Calyx membranous, with a truncate or sinuate border. 

 Corolla-tube slender, often curved, sometimes slightly dilated above; the limb 

 more or less 2-lipped, the lobes 4 or 5, obtuse or retuse. Stamens 4, didynamous; 

 filaments adnate to about the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled, 

 stigma oblique; ovules solitary in each cavity. Fruit small, drupe-like. Nut- 

 lets 2-celled or separating into 2 one-seeded nutlets. [Named from fancied 

 similarity to Viburnum Lantana.] About 60 -species, natives of tropical and 

 warm regions. Type species: Lantana Camara L. 



Flower-heads not involucrate ; leaves large. 



Flowers yellow to orange ; stems unarmed or a little prickly. 1. L. Camara. 



Flowers yellow to pink ; stems strongly armed with hooked 



prickles. 2. L. acitleata. 



Flower-heads involucrate ; leaves small ; flowers lilac to white. 3. L. involucrata. 



1. Lantana Camara L. Bed 



iSagej-bush. English Sage-bush. 

 (Fig. 335.) A branching shrub S°- 

 5° tall, rigid-pubescent, unarmed, or 

 slightly prickly. Leaves ovate to ob- 

 long-ovate, l'-4' long, obtuse, acute, or 

 short-acuminate, finely crenate-ser- 

 rate, rounded or narrowed at the 

 base; bracts oblong to lanceolate, 2"- 

 4" long; calyx very thin, IJ" long; 

 corolla yellow or orange, the tube 

 about 5" long, puberulent, slightly 

 curved, barely enlarged above the 

 middle; limb 3"-4" wide. [L. crocea 

 of Eeade, Lefroy, Kemp, H. B. Small, 

 Harshberger, Verrill and Eein.] 



Common on hillsides, in fields and waste grounds. Naturalized. Florida, the 

 West Indies and tropical continental America. Flowers from spring to autumn. 

 The species consists of many races ; the one inhabiting Bermuda appears to be 

 essentially unarmed. 



