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Lantana.) VERBENACER. 253 
widened at the throat, the limb oblique and almost 2-lipped, the 
upper lip entire or 2-cleft, the lower one 3-cleft. Stamens 4, didy- 
namous, inserted and included in the corolla-tube; anther-cells 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled, with a solitary erect 
ovule in each cell ; style short and filiform, with a linear or obliquely 
capitate stigma. Drupe fleshy or succulent, usually supported by 
the enlarged withered calyx, containing a hard 2-celled putamen 
or dividing into two 1-celled nuts—Shrubs or rarely undershrubs, 
with 4-cornered branches, usually more or less scabrous or aculeate, 
with opposite or whorled aromatic leaves. Flowers in dense pedun- 
cled heads or spikes. 
Branches, etc., usually aculeate along the corners; nuts, if not 
entirely, at least at the base separated by a spongy mass . L. miata. 
All parts greyish pubescent, no thorns; nuts connate in an entire 
putamen ; : = : : : . : . ZL. alba, 
1. L. mixta, L.—An evergreen large shrub with spreading 4- 
cornered branches, unarmed or sprinkled with straight or curved 
thorns along the corners; leaves cordate-ovate to ovate-oblong, 
somewhat decurrent at the base, acuminate, serrate-crenate, veined 
and wrinkled, above rough from short stiff hairs, beneath pale- 
coloured and more or less greyish pubescent ; flowers small, chang- 
ing colour from white and bluish white to yellow and finally to 
orange and red, arranged in short long-peduncled axillary heads ; 
bracts linear-lanceolate, hairy, the lower ones of the length of the 
corolla-tube, those further up gradually smaller and shorter ; drupes 
purplish black, smooth, the size of a small pea. 
Has.—A Brazilian plant, cultivated all over Burma, and sometimes like wild 
around habitations. 
2. L. alba, Mill.; Brand. For. Fl. 369.—An evergreen low 
shrub, with simple or slightly branched 4-cornered stems, all parts 
more or less greyish pubescent ; leaves ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, 
more or less tapering into a short petiole, acuminate, serrate, much 
wrinkled, 1-2 in. long, on both sides scabrously pubescent from 
short almost greyish hairs; flowers small, white, yellow at the 
es arranged in dense rather short-peduncled axillary heads 
on ; 
Has.—Burma, according to Rev. Dr. Mason (probably Ava). 
SYMPHOREMA, Roxb. 
Involucre 6-8-ph llous, spreading, usually longer (rarely shorter) 
than the contented nual iran Calyx more or less bell-shaped, 
