370 VEBBENACEAE. 



finely crenate-serrate, rounded or narrowed at the base; bracts oblong to lance- 

 olate, 4-7 mm. long; calyx very thin, 3 mm. long; corolla orange-yellow or 

 orange, changing to red, the tube about 1 cm. long, puberulent, slightly 

 curved, barely enlarged above the middle; limb 6-8 mm. wide; drupes black, 

 about 3 mm. in diameter. 



Waste grounds, Eleuthera, Watling's, Long Island and Inagua : Bermuda ; 

 Georgia to Florida and Texas ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Re- 

 ferred to by Coker as L. crocea as to his Eleuthera plant. LANTANA. RED SAGE-BUSH.' 



3. Lantana bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 450. 1905. 



Shrub 1 m. high or less, with slender striate branches, which are smooth 

 or sometimes bear minute prickles less than 0.5 mm. long, the twigs minutely 

 pubescent; leaves thin, oblong-lanceolate, varying from acute to blunt at the 

 apex, more or less narrowed at the base, and somewhat decurrent on the petiole, 

 minutely short-pubescent on both sides, or becoming glabrous above, closely 

 crenate, the primary veins rather conspicuous on the under side; blades 5 cm. 

 long or less, 1.5-2 cm. wide; petioles very slender, 2 cm. long or less; peduncles 

 terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves; bracts lanceolate, acutish, very 

 pubescent, about 4 mm. long; flowers 8-15 in the heads; calyx 2 mm. long, 

 pubescent, the 2 short lips about equal; corolla yellow, changing to orange,, its 

 tube pubescent, enlarged above, about 8 mm. long, its limb about 4 mm. wide, 

 irregularly lobed; fruit globose, black, shining, about 3 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Wat- 

 ling's, Rum Cay, Great Exuma, Long Island, Acklin's and North and East Caicos : 

 Cuban Cays. The New Providence plants were referred by Mrs. Northrop to L. 

 Camara, and by Hitchcock, Grisebach and Dolley to the Jamaican L. crocea. Erro- 

 neously called GOLDEN-ROD. BAHAMA LANTANA. 



4. Lantana involucrata L. Cent. PI. 2: 22. 1756. 



Lantana odorata L. Syst. ed. 12, 418. 1767. 



A pubescent, much branched shrub, 6-15 dm. high, the branches stiff, 

 nearly terete. Leaves elliptic or ovate, petioled, 1-4 cm. long, crenulate, obtuse 

 at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, scabrous above, pubescent be- 

 neath; peduncles 1-5 cm. long, slender; heads several-flowered, involucrate by 

 several ovate or ovate-lanceolate bracts 3-6 mm. long; corolla lilac or nearly 

 white, its tube 68 mm. long; drupes about 4 mm. in diameter; drupes blue, 

 about 3 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, thickets and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Allen's 

 Cay and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Little Ambergris Cay, Inagua, the Anguilla 

 Isles and Cay Sal : Florida ; Bermuda ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Guadeloupe ; Ja- 

 maica. WILD SAGE. BIG SAGE. 



5. Lantana demutata Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 175. 1906. 



A widely branched shrub, 1-2 dm. high, the young twigs densely puberu- 

 lent, the older ones glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, short-petioled, 

 1-2 cm. long, crenate, puberulent on both sides, rugose and scabrous above; 

 peduncles slender, puberulent, 2-4 cm. long; heads 5-8-flowered, involucrate 

 by ovate or oblong obtuse bracts about 4.5 mm. long; flowers white; corolla- 

 tube about 3 mm. long; drupes blue, pubescent, 2-3 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands, Harbor Island, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Great Exuma and Long 

 Island. Endemic. BAHAMA SAGE-BUSH. 



6. Lantana balsamifera Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4 : 123. 1905. 



A shrub, 1.6 m. high or less, forming large masses, with a balsamic odor, 

 the slender bluntly angular branches ascending, puberulent; the internodes 

 short. Leaves elliptic to ovate elliptic or nearly orbicular, 5-10 mm. long, 5 

 mm. wide or less, puberulent, acute or obtuse, firm, crenulate, rugose-reticulated 

 above, paler and rather strongly veined beneath, the petioles 1-1.5 mm. long; 



