Lantana. 1 1 



capitate, peduncled, with ovate or lanceolate bracts; calyx 

 membranous, with short tube, more or less distinctly two- 

 lipped, 4— 5-toothed, pubescent; corolla with long cylin- 

 drical tube; limb spreading, 4 — ^5-lobed, more or less 

 2-lipped, oblique; stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the 

 middle or the upper part of the corolla-tube, included, 

 with very short filaments; style short, with capitate stigma; 

 ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled; drupe with 1 two-celled, two- 

 seeded pyrene, or with 2 one-celled, one-seeded pyrenes, 

 exocarp fleshy; seeds without albumen. 



Distribution: chiefly in tropical America, a few in Africa 

 and Asia. 



1. a. Leaves ternate or opposite; branchlets without spines; 



bracts with a long spiny acumen . 1. L. trifolia p. 11. 



b. Leaves opposite; branchlets with or without spines; bracts 



without spiny acumen 2. 



2. a. Branchlets often with spines; bracts as long as the half 



of the corolla-tube ; calyx 2-lipped, lips 2-toothed ; corolla 

 golden-yellow, ultimately orange-coloured-red. 



2. L. aculeata p. 12. 

 b, Branchlets without spines; bracts as long as the corolla- 

 tube; calyx 2-lipped, lips entire; corolla white with yellow 



throat 3. L, salvifolia p. 13. 



Doubtful species: 4. L. triplincrvia p. 14. 



1. L. trifolia L., sp. pi. 626, (1753); BacArer, Ann. 

 J. bot. Buitzg. suppl. 3, I, 406; Schauer, DC. Prod. XI, 

 606: Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 563; Bot. Mag. tab. 

 1022? or tab. 1449?!; Hall, f., Meded. 's Rijks Herb. 

 Leid. no. 37, 18; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I, 504. — 

 L. albopurpurea Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. Ill, 392, 

 (1829). — L. achyranthifolia Desf. I.e.; Hall. f. 

 I.e., 17. — L. annua L. sp. pi. 627. — L. dubia Royle, 

 Illustr. Bot. Himal., 300, t. 73, (1839), pro parte. — 

 L. indica Wall., cat. no. 1823, (1828). — L. prlosa 

 H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et sp., II, 260, (1817). - L. 

 eel tidi folia H. B. et K., Nov. Gen. et Spec. II, 259, 



