12 Lantana. 



(1817). ^ An undershrub; branchlets, peduncles and petioles, 

 hirsute-rugose; leaves ternate or opposite,, membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, both sides acute, base entire, margins 

 dentate-serrate, above rugose with stiff hairs on papils, 

 beneath rather densely hairy, glandular, hairs simple"; 10 

 by S'/a cM.; petioles 0.7—1 cM.; inflorescences axillary; 

 spikes subcylindrical, I'/s— 2V2 cM. long, 0.7—1 cM. 

 wide, peduncles 9—10 c.M.; bracts as long as or longer 

 than the corolla, 5-nerved, with a long, slender acumen, 

 0.4—0.8 cM., lower surface pubescent and glandular; 

 calyx irregularly and unequally 4-toothed, oblique, scar- 

 cely pubescent and glandular, 0.1 cM. ; corolla softly 

 hairy, glandular, 4-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped, lilac; ovary 

 glabrous. 



Java: Denker nos. 222 and 8, Purbolinggo, flow, on 

 27— V— 1911— Boer/age nos. 44 (Buitenzorg) and 459 

 (Tjiomas) — Zollinger no. 1839 (L. achyranthifolia). 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into tropical 

 Asia (Ceylon, Brit. India, Java!, Sumatra). 



2. L. aculeata L., sp. pi. 627, (1753); Bot. Mag. t. 

 96; King and Gamble Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, LXXIV, 

 4, 796; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 17 - 

 L. camaraL. sp. pi. 627 (1753); Benth. and v. MuelL. 

 Fl. Austr., V, 34; Backer, Ann. Jard. bot. Buitzg. suppl. 

 ,3, I, 406; Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 598; Elbert. Meded. 

 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 12, 15; Forbes and Hemsley, 

 Fl. sin. II, 251; i^Toorders, . Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 132; 

 Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I, 503; Merrill., Bur. Gov. Lab. 

 no. 27, 67 and Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. XI, 311; Martins. 

 Fl. Brasil. IX, 255; Meriill, Bur. Gov. Lab. no. 6, 35. - 

 L. mutabilis Salisb., Prodr. 107, (1796) — L. polya- 

 cantha Schau. DC. Prodr. XI, 597. (1847) — L. scabrida 

 Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. I, 11, 352, (1789) — 

 L. viburnoides Blco., Fl. Filipp., ed. 11,345, (1845). 

 A shrub; branches tetragonous, with or without down- 



