824 BENGAL PLANTS. fLantana. 
each; trees or shrubs; leaves simple; cymes sengg hb dense or 
i pteris. 
thyrsoi 
*Cymes ee capitate :— [p. 823 
Cymes 3-9-flowered ; bracts of flower-head al forming an invo- 
fii fruit small, nearly dry; large climbers 
Bracts 6 :— 
mie 3-8-toothed ; corolla-lobes 6-16; stamens 6-16, miuen 
Calys 5-toothed ; corolla-lobes 5, rarely 6; stamens 5, little or 
not at all exserte Spl desma 
Bracts 3-4; corolla distinctly 2-lipped  ..........:..ccceeeeeeee Congea. 
Cymes sae ieee, densely capitate; bracts shorter than calyx; 
calyx 5-par segments concave, much imbricated ; fruit rather 
fleshy, aie dehiscent ; shrubs Avicennia. 
719. Lantana Linn. 
Rambling or scandent, pubescent or glabrous shrubs; branches 
4-angled, sometimes prickly; leaves opposite, simple, petioled, 
crenate, offen rugose. wers in peduncled, capitate, ovoid or 
cylindric spikes; bracts conspicuous, longer than the calyx; brac- 
teoles 0. Sepals connate in a small, membranous, truncate or 
sinuately 4-5-toothed calyx. Pitot 4 or 5, connate in a cylindric 
corolla with slender tube; lobes of limb spreading. Stamens 4, 
ynamous, included; anthers broadly oblong. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect from base oF 
attached laterally close to base of cell; style short; stigma oblique, 
subcapitate. Fruit a fleshy or nearly dry drupe, with 2 bony, 
1-celled pyrenes. Seeds without albumen; radicle inferior. 
Stems not prickly ; erect shrubs: 
Leaves wereed w gaarand fee vapor ternate; branches, at least below, 
adpressed scabrid-p indica. 
Leaves usually ternate, sometimes opposite ; branches patently hairy 
throughout trifolia 
Stems armed with recurved prickles Camara. 
1577. Lantana tnpica Roxb.; F. I. iii. 89; F. B. I. iv. 562. 
In most of the provinces. 
shrub, 3-8 feet high. 
1578. Lantana TRIFOLIA Linn.; F. B. Li 
E. Be ks Barisal ; Chidangone: aileaieat: native of 
eri 
A snc shrub. . 
