LAN 



LAN 



It belongs to the cla;s and order DiJi/namia 

 Ans;.iospcrmia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Per^otiata. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 JcaFcd perianthium, very short, converging, ob- 

 scurely four-loothed, tubular : the corolla onc- 

 fietaJied, nearly equal : tube cylindrio, slender, 

 onger than the calyx, ralher obhi]ue : border 

 flat, unequally t'our-clet't, obtuse : the stamina 

 have four tilanients, very small, placed in the 

 midst of the tube of the corolla, very slender, 

 of which two are a little higher : anthers round- 

 ish : the pistillum is a roundish germ : style 

 filifornj, short: stigma refracted, sharp down- 

 wards like a hook, and as it were obliquely 

 growing to the tip of the sl\le : the pericarpiuni 

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

 round-pyraniidal, three-celled nut : the lowest 

 cell steril : the kernels solitary, oblong. 



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

 ous-flowered Lantana; 2. L. Camara, Various- 

 coloured Lantana; 3. L. involucrala, Round- 

 leaved Lantana; 4. L. melijsa^foUa, Baum-leav- 

 cd Lantana; 3. L. aculcata, Prickly Lantana; 

 6. 7/. mirea, 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 long span or a 

 foot in length, quadrangular, green, hairy: the 

 leaves above bright green and somewhat shining, 

 beneath paler, deeply notched, much wrinkled, 

 and very ruoced : whilst the flower is yet closed, 

 the lower part of the border appears of a pale 

 red; when it opens, the tube 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 vellow, and the circumference 

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

 tive of America. 



The second species has a shrubby stem, a 

 fathom in height, angular, somewhat rugged: 

 the branches subdivided, almost upright, rugged, 

 quadrangular : the branchlets quadrangular, 

 grooved, strict, hirsute, dark green : the leaves 

 on long p:;t!oles, decussated, spreading, ovate, 

 acuminate, serrate, nerved, hirsute : the flowers 

 terminating : the peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves, solitary, angular, grooved, hirsute : the 

 bracies broad-lanecolate, concave, entire, pubes- 

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

 ing from April to September..-, 



The third has a round woody stem, branched, 

 scarcely hairy : the branches opposite : the 

 leaves pelioled, scarcely crenate, menibrana- 

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ccous, rigid, less wrinkled than in the others 

 above, nerved beneath, tnmcniose: the leaves 

 seldom if ever in threes: the peduncles short : 

 the spikes rounded : the bractes large, sessile, 

 cordate-ovate, with six or more nerves running 

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

 vated their whole length, and tomentose : the 

 flowers whitish, with pale flesh-coloured mar- 

 gins. It is a native of the West Indies, flovv- 

 cring from May to .luly. 



The fourth species is lower than most of the 

 others, being seldom more than two .feet in 

 height : the stem round, ash-coloured, not 

 hairy : the younger branches have bundles of 

 hairs spreading out at top: the ieai-es opposite, 

 but sometimes in threes, petioled, cordate-acu- 

 minate, more deeply crenate than in the other 

 species, \^Tinkled, 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 bractes 

 oblono;, entire, tomentose-hairy, deciduous, 

 differing in size : the colour of the corolla con- 

 stant, and always yellow. It is a native of 

 South America. 



'ilie 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 arc 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 are 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 hairy : the leaves ovate- oblong or al- 

 most elliptic, bluntly notched about the edge, 

 very short stiff" hairs at the upper surface, the 

 lower rugged with a harsh down, dark greea 

 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 Islands. 



Culture. — These plants are capable of being 

 raised by seeds and cuttings of the young 

 branches. 



