Principal Species. 



brief 



Lantana Camara (arched). Stem prickly, 6 to 10 feet 

 "high. Le9-ves oval or oblong, saw-toothed. Flowers red or 

 orange, variable, in hemispherical heads ; June. 



L. CROCEA (saffron). Stem 3 feet high. Leaves oval, rough and 

 wrinkled. Flowers bright red, those in centre of cluster yellow ; June. 



L. SELLOVIANA (Sellow's). Stem downy, trailing. Leaves oval, with 

 rounded teeth, downy. Flowers bright purplish red in flat heads; 

 December and January. 



L. TRIFOLIA (three-leaved). Stem 3 feet high. Leaves elliptical, 

 saw-toothed ; often in whorls. Flowers reddish or purplish, in oval or 

 oblong heads ; August. 





Ne Plus Ultri 



Lantanas are as easy to cultivate as Geraniums. 

 They succeed best in a compost of two-thirds loam to one- 

 third leaf-mould or well-rotted manure. Cuttings should be taken at 

 the end of the summer and inserted in small pots of sandy soil, placed 

 in the greenhouse or under a bell-glass, and kept in the greenhouse 

 through the winter. They require very little water until after growth 

 has well commenced in the spring, and then they must have plenty. 

 In summer these young plants may be used for bedding purposes, the old 

 ones being repotted and cut back for greenhouse decoration. 

 Description of Flowering branch of Lantana Camara, natural size. 



Plate 219. Fig 1 is an enlarged flower ; 2, a section through same ; and 

 3, the fruit. 



VERBENAS 



Natural Order Verbenace^. Genus Verbena 



Verbena (Latin, the classical name, signifying altar herbs). A genus of 

 about eighty species of herbs or under-shrubs, annual or perennial, 

 gi-eenhouse or hardy, with square stems, leaves opposite or in whorls of 

 three, simple or much indented, and flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. 



