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branches and young leaves are sticky. The calyx consists of five sepals ; 

 the corolla is bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, with a short tube and five 

 lobes. There are four almost equal stamens ; and the fruit is a fleshy 

 drupe containing three or four large seeds. The species are natives of 

 Australasia, Malaya, China, Japan, and the islands of the Pacific. They 

 are seldom cultivated, although the species described is easily managed. 



Myoporum parvifolium (small-leaved). Stem with 

 Principal Species. ^^^^ drooping branches, forming a bushy plant 3 feet 

 hicrh. Leaves slender or narrowly-spoon-shaped, fleshy, rough with 

 glands. Flowers white, numerous, produced singlj^, or two or three to- 

 gether; June. Evergreen shrub. Introduced from New Holland, 1803. 

 Myopormnsveqyxire greenhouse treatment, and a potting 

 soil of a peaty nature. A mixture of fibrous loam and peat 

 in equal portions with a little sand added will be found the most suitable. 

 They otherwise require no special treatment. They are propagated by 

 means of slips taken from the young shoots in spring or autumn, inserted 

 in sandy soil and covered with a bell-glass, on gentle bottom heat. 



A flowering branch of Myoporum jycirvifolmm, natural 

 « 218. size. Fig. 1 is a detached leaf ; 2, a flower, enlarged ; 3, a 

 I of the same. 



Natural Order Verbenace^. Genus Lantana 



Lantana (ancient name of Wayfaring-tree, which these plants were 

 supposed to resemble). A genus of about fifty species of stove evergreen 

 shrubs (rarely herbs) with toothed, opposite leaves, and red, golden, or 

 white flowers. These have a slender corolla-tube with five spreading 

 lobes, four stamens, and a two-celled ovary. The fruit is fleshy, containing 

 two nuts. Most of the species are natives of Tropical and Sub-tropical 

 America, a few African or Asian. 



Lantana Camara was introduced from the West 

 Indies about 1691, L. mellissi folia, L. stricta, and L. trifolia 

 in 1733 ; L. crocea in 1818 ; and L. selloviana from Monte Video in 1822. 

 All these were treated as stove-plants, until in recent years, but without 

 much success. It has since been discovered that young plants do well 

 and flower freely out of doors, and this has led to their use as bedding 

 plants in place of the less brilliant Verbenas. Increased attention has 

 been paid to the genus, with the result that a fine series of hybrids and 

 florists' varieties have been raised, and these have to a very great extent 



