796 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Bracts lanceolate ; without prickles . . . . . . 1. L. salvifolia. 



Bracts ovate, acuminate ; with recurved prickles .. .. 2. L. aculeata. 



1. Lantana SAiiViFOLiA, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. III. 18, t. 285 

 (1798). An erect branching shrub, reaching 3 to 8 ft. in height ; stems 

 rough, without prickles ; branchlets quadrangular, strigosely hispid, 

 yellowish-brown. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, membranous 

 when dry ; ovate-lanceolate, acute at apex, suddenly narrowed and then 

 decurrent at base ; both surfaces rugose, the upper strigosely hispid, 

 the lower villous and pale ; margins crenate-serrate ; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 

 2 in. broad ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, the lowest pair opposite and 

 more oblique than the others, all curving to the margin ; reticulations 

 prominent ; petiole "2 to "4 in. long, winged by the decurrent margins 

 of the blade. Spikes globose to oblong, "5 to 1 and even 1*5 in. long, 

 gradually elongating as the fruit ripens ; peduncles angular, hispid, 



1 to 3 in. long ; bracts ovate, caudate-acuminate, strigosely villous, 

 •25 in. long. Calyx minute, truncate, densely villous. Gorolla-twhe 

 curved, slightly inflated opposite the stamens, villous without, -2 in. 

 long ; lobes spreading, rounded, the uppermost slightly acute. Fila- 

 ments short ; anther-cells equal. Drupe oblong, purple ; exocarp thin, his- 

 pid ; mesocarp fleshy ; endocarp rugose, the 2 pyriform pyrenes of which 

 it is composed closely adherent. Seed elliptic ; testa reticulate ; cotyle- 

 dons thin. Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 276 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 XI. 605. L. inclica, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 46 (1814), and Fl. Ind. III. 89 ; 

 WaU. Cat. 1823 a,b ; Wight 111. t. 173 b, fig. 3, and Ic. t. 1464 ; Trimen 

 Fl. Ceyl. III. 346 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 562; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb. II. 418; Prain Beng. Plants 825. L. duhia, Wall. Cat. 1821, 



2 and c, not 1 ; Eoyle 111. 300 t. 73, fig. 2. L. collina, Dene, in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 136, t. 141. L. alba, Schauer I.e. 606; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 198 ; BrandisFor. Fl. 369 ; KurzFor. Fl. II. 253 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient. IV. 532, not of Miller, Dene, or Link. 



Penang : Bidley ; Curtis 121 ; Deschamps. Perak : at Teluk 

 Anson, Ridley 10762. Malacca : Ridley 10115. Singapore : Des- 

 champs ; Kunstler 135. — Distrib. India, Burma, Ceylon, Tropical and 

 South Africa. 



2. Lantana aculeata, Linn. Sp. PL 627 (1753). A very straggling 

 erect shrub with many branches, 4 to 8 ft. high ; branchlets quadran- 

 gular, armed with recurved prickles. Leaves opposite ; ovate, acute at 

 apex, truncate or cordate at base ; the blade decurrent ; upper surface 

 scabrous, lower pubescent ; margins crenate, 1 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, curving upwards to 

 the margin; reticulations netted; petiole slender, -5 to -7 in. long, the 

 upper part bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Spikes 



