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Marseille, iv. 1897, p. 127). The seeds are-used in Java as an 
eye medicine (Mus. Kew 
may be distilled from the flowers and leaves (see Semi- 
Ann i Be zur Wm Co. Nov. 1908, p. 140; Oct. 1909, p. 73 and 
Oct. 1913, p. 66), the constituents of which have not yet been 
identified (om Chemist & "qu May 16, 1914, p. 46). 
n ornamental shrub, 4-10 ft. high, suitable for planting in 
amongst which may be mentioned * alba,” " ose we 
8 à À 
“ compacta," "fulva," “grandiflora,” “ pulcherrima," “ Que 
Victoria," ‘‘ triomphe,"' * variegata," 
In many countries ‘where the plant has been introduced it is 
regarded as a pest, despite its medicinal and ornamental value. 
Experiments are being made in New Caledbnii a with a fly (Agromy- 
zidae) introduced from Hawaii to compass its ans À (Journ. 
um Trop. seq.). 
Ref.—'' La Lantana et sa Destruction," Marques in L'Agric. 
prat. pays chauds, vii. part 2, 1907, pp. 70—76.—" La Destruction 
du Lantana "' in Journ. d'Agric. Tropicale, xii. 1912, 54—“ La 
Lantana Camara, Linn. sa a Vegetatio on a Alger," Rivière, in Bull. 
de la Société Nationale D'Acclimatation de France, lix. 1912, 
pp- 598-601. 
Lantana salvifolia, Jacq.; Fl. Trop. AV. pe 2s 
Ill.—Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. t. 285; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
. 1464 (L. indica). 
Vernac. name.—Eluku (Lagos, MacGregor, Phillips). 
Widely distributed in Tropical Africa, etc. 
Fruit edible. 
A shrub 1-6 ft. high, in rocky ground Lokoja (Parsons, No. 11. 
1908, Herb. Kew); ornamental, corolla rose-coloured. 
Lantana trifolia, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 277 
Ill.—Sloane, Hist. Jamaiea, + 195 f 3 (Periclymenune 
rectum, etc.); Bot. Mag. t. 1449. 
Wild Sage. 
Lagos (Rowland, 1890, Herb. Kew). .Native of Tropical 
America; naturalised in Tropical Asia. 
Fruit edible; more pulpy than in any other species (Bot. Mag. 
l.c.); the leaves are used in baths for dropsical people to cleanse- 
the skin and in all hot fomentations (Sloane, Hist. Jamaica, 
il. 
+ 
82 
À ci up to 6 ft. high; found on the beach at Boea near 
Limon, Costa Rica (Tonduz, Herb. Kew); grows everywhere in the 
savannahs in all the Cartbhoun Islands (Sloane, 1.c.). 
Lirepra, Linn 
ue adoensis, //ochst.; Fl. Trop. Ate V. p. 280. 
ac. names. Fetfettis (Sierra Leone, Reser Elliot); Borm- 
"d (abia, Molone y).—Gambia Tea. 
