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422. ZAPANIA. Lamark, 



Flowers capitate. — Calix 5-toothed. Corolla 

 5-lobcd. Stamina 4, fertile. Stigma peltately 

 capitate, oblique. Seeds 2, at first covered by 

 an evanescent utriculus. 



Stem shrubby or herbaceous and creeping; capituU 

 axillary, pedunculate; leaves opposite. 



Species. 1. Z. 7io(lijiora. abundant on the gravelly 

 banks of all the lar;/er rivers of the United States from 

 New York south and west. On river banks also near 

 Cafsam in Barbary. Desfontaines. Flor. Atl. vol. i. p. 16. 

 2. lanceolata. 



An American genus and partly tropical, with the ex- 

 ception of Z. 7iociijiora. 



423. LANTANA. i. 



Flowers capitate. — Calix obsoletely 4-tooth- 

 e^l. Border of the corolla 4-lobed, unequal, ori- 

 fice pervious. Stamina witliin the tube. >S^/i^- 

 ma uncinately refracted. Brupes aggregated; 

 nut bilocular, even, 2-seeded. 



Mostly shrubs; stems smooth or aculeate; leaves oppo- 

 site and ternate; flovv'ers yellov/-, fulvous, purple, red or 

 white, collected in axiliiiry pedunculated capituli, each 

 flower bracteate. 



Species. 1. L,. C'a7nara9 In Florida, ^artram's Trsi- 

 vels, p. 103. — A tropical genus. 



424. CAPRARIA. i. 



Calix 5-parted. Corolla snbcampannlate, aU 

 most equally 5-cleft, Capsule 2.valved, 2-cel- 

 3ed, many-seeded. 



Shrubby or herbticecus; leaves opposite and ternalcly 

 venicillate, flovvers axillary or terminally racemose. 

 Scarcely a natural genus? 



Speciks. 1. C Tnidtifda. Oes. Annual: leaves pinn.iti- 

 fid, opposite and ternate, ultimate lobe trifid; peduncles 

 filiform, axillary; segments of the calix subulate; corolla 

 small, tubular-campanulate, almost equally 5-lobed; cap- 

 sule ovate, not acuminated, partly 4-valved. IIab. Along 

 the banks of the Oiiio and the other western rivers, cona 

 mon, 2, b/Jiora- In Florida. Muhl. Catal. 

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