340 VERBENACEiE. Lantana. 



of the leaf (2 to 5 inches long) : heads globular, at length oblong : bracts ovate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, nearly equalling the white or purple corolla ; the outermost gradually larger 

 but hardly forming an involucre. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 127. — S. W. borders of Texas 

 ( Wright, &c.), and adjacent parts of Mexico, Gregg, Palmer. 



§ 2. Drupe juicy; the 2 nutlets separated, at least at base. Steins sometimes 



prickly or hispid, but this very variable. 



Li. Camara, L. Scabrous and more or less hirsute, 1 to 4 feet high : prickles on the stem 

 short and hooked : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, often subcordate, crenate-serrate, very 

 scabrous above, scabrous-hirsute or softer-pubescent beneath (about 2 inches long) : pe- 

 duncles rigid, about tlie length of the leaf : head flat-topped in anthesis ; the rhachis not 

 elongating : bracts lanceolate, strigose-hirsute, about half the lengtli of the yellow at 

 length orange or even flame-colored corolla. — Plum. Ic. t. 71 ; Dill. Elth. t. 56. L. horrida, 

 var. parviflora, Scliauer in DC. 1. c. ; Torr. I.e. — S. Georgia and Florida, S. Texas and 

 southward. (Trop. Am.) 



8. CITHAErfiXYLUM, L. (Name composed of Kiddga, guitar or lyre, 

 and ^vXov, wood, a translation into Greek of the colonial-English Fiddle-wood ; 

 but this name, unfortunately for the etymology, is an English corruption of the 

 earlier French-colonial name, hoisjidele, meaning a wood trustworthy for strength.) 

 — ^ Tropical American shrubs or trees ; with somewhat coriaceous leaves, and small 

 flowers on a filiform rhachis, each subtended by a minute bract. 



C. villosum, Jaoq. Soft-pubescent or glabrate : leaves oblong-obovate or oblong, entire 

 or occasionally few-tootlied above the middle, veiny and witli finely reticulated veinlets, 

 shining and barely scabrous above, pale and sometimes soft-canescent beneath, biglandular 

 at the narrowed base, tapering into the petiole : racemes declining, loose, but spike-like : 

 flowers very short-pedicelled : corolla white, glabrous externally. — Coll. i. 72, & Ic. Rar. 

 t. 118 ; Chapm. Fl. 309. — Key West, S. Florida ; perhaps S. Texas. ( W. Ind., Mex. ) 



9. DURANTA, L. {Castor Diirantes, wrote upon "W. Indian plants in the 

 16th century.") — W. Indian and S. American shrubs, often armed with axillary 

 spines ; one has reached our borders. 



D. Plumieri, Jacq. Minutely pubescent or glabrate : branches 4-angIed : leaves obovate, 

 oblong, or ovate, mostly entire, contracted at base into a short petiole: racemes panicled, 

 loose : lower bracts often leafy : calyx-teeth subulate from a broad base : corolla lilac : 

 drupe yellow; tlie enclosing persistent calyx also yellowisli, closed into a straight or con- 

 torted beak. — Jacq. Stirp. t. 176, fig. 76, & Ic. Rar. t. 502; Bot. Reg. t. 244; Cliapm. I.e. 

 D. spinosa & D. inertnis, L. ; the branches sometimes spiny, sometimes unarmed. D. Ellisia, 

 Jacq. Amer. t. 176, f. 77, & Hort. Sclioenb. iii. t. 99 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1759. Ellisia acuta, L. — 

 Key West, S. Florida, Blodgelt. (Trop. Am,) 



10. GALLIC ARPA, L. (/Ca^^o?, beauty, and xapnoV, fruit: the berry- 

 like drupes ornamental.) — A rather large E. Asiatic and American genus, chiefly 

 of the wanner regions, one in the Atlantic States ; fl. late summer. Pubescence 

 stellular-branched or scurfy. 



=>.C. Americana, L. (Fuenoh Mulberry.) Shrub low, with scurfy-stellate down and 

 glandular-dotted ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, obtusely serrate, greenish above, whitish 

 or rusty beneath, acute or cimeate at base : cymes sliorter than the petiole, many-flowered : 

 corolla bluish, liardly 2 lines long i fruit violet-colored. — Oatesb. Car. t. 47 ; Lam. 111. t. 69. 

 <S'/)m(/yococcus, Mitchell, Nov. Gen. Burckardut Americana, Duham. Arb. ed. 1, i. t. 44. — 

 Rich or moist grounds, Virginia to Texas. (W. Ind.) 



1 1 . AVIC£!NNIA, L. "White Mangrove. (Dedicated to Avicenna, 

 the Latinized name of Ibusina, most illustrious of Arabian physicians ; died in 



