LANTA'NA SELLOWIA'NA. 
SELLOW’S LANTANA. 
EXOGENZ, OR DICOTYLEDONEA, 
: Natural division 
to which 
this Plant af 
NATURAL ORDER, VERBENACE®, 
COROLLIFLOR v DIDYNAMIA, 
OF = : ANGIOSPERMIA, 
DECANDOLLE.. OF. LINNEUS. 
No, 115, 
Artificial divisions 
| to which ‘ 
GENUS. pee oe us. Catyx brevis, tubul bsolete dentatu 
{ na 
this Plant belongs. 
tubo calycem longe superante tenvi, limbo patente quadri- 
TAMINA cantzor, ingtiee satay ental - Ovarrembiloculare,loculis 
i loculorum erectis op us | mis. Drupa 
E. 
Fouta opposita vel ternata, 
simplicia, dentata. CapituLa Ce FiorgEs bracteati, brac- 
teis exterioribus involucrantibus 
SPECIES. NTANA SELLOWIANA, — AND ieee Fruticosa, gracilis, 
wee breviter ptiolatis ovato-rhombeis cre S rugosis piloso-scabris, 
ato-serra 
apitulis florum longe ee ralglobosi,bactls late cordatis breviter » 
Secaahaiibe corolle tubo brevioribus ; 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS LANTANA. CALyx short, tubular, 
obsoletely-toothed. CoRoLLa hypogynous, the tube‘slender and much 
longer than the calyx, the limb spreading, unequally 4-cleft. STa- 
MENS four, within the tube of the corolla, didynamous. Ovary two- 
celled, each cell containing one erect anatropous ovule, Sry.e fili- 
form. Drurs fleshy, of two unilocular one-seeded pyrenes. Em- 
Bryo without any albumen, and an inferior radicle. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, LANTANA SELLOWIANA. A low 
branching shrub, often procumbent. Brancues slender, twiggy, 
pubescent. Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, ovate, somewhat 
rhomboid, rather pointed, sharply crenated, narrowed, or rounded and 
entire at the base, with short rigid hairs on both sides, and rugose. 
PEDUNCLES arising from the axille, two or three inches long, with 
minute appressed rigid hairs. Habs OF FLOWERS nearly globose. 
Fiowers thickly imbricate, each one placed at the axilla of an ovate 
rounded, or somewhat heart-shaped bractea, of which the outer ones 
are much broader and form a sort ofinvolucrum. Tuse of the corolla 
three or four lines long, slender all the way up, pubescent. Limp 
spreading, consisting of four broad, somewhat retuse, segments, of 
