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Phyla chinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 66, (1790). — 

 A creeping perennial herb or undershrub; branches tetra- 

 gonous, appressedly pubescent; leaves chartaceous or 

 subcoriaceous, sessile or subsessile, obovate or obovate- 

 elongate with long-attenuate entire base and rounded 

 serrate apex, both sides appressedly pubescent with simple 

 hairs, pairs of nerves 2 — 6; P/s^ — 5 cM. long; 0.3 — 2 cM. 

 wide across the middle or above it; spikes O.S-— 1.5 cM. 

 long, 0.5 — 0.6 cM. wide, long-peduncled, solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves; peduncles 5 — 11 cM.; bracts as long 

 as the corolla-tube, ovate-rotundate with abrupt, subulate 

 apex, or nearly wide-triangular, deltoid, with straight 

 dentate apex, sometimes with a short acumen ; calyx 0.06 

 cM., pubescent, 2-lipped, somewhat irregularly 4-toothed; 

 corolla softly pubescent, 0.35 cM.; limb spreading, more 

 or less 2-lipped, 4 — 5 lobed; stamens 4, didynamous, the 

 short filaments inserted near the throat of the corolla; 

 style very short, with capitate or subpeltate stigma, 

 ovary glabrous 2-celled, 2-ovuled: fruit dry, with two 

 1 -seeded cocci. 



Var. a. sarmentosa Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 585, 

 (1847). — Lantana sarmentosa Spr. Syst. II, 752, 

 (1825^ — 28). — ^ Lippia sarmentosa 5pr. I.e. ^Leaves 

 obovate, base entire to the middle, 3— 4V2 by 173—2 cM.; 

 pairs of nerves 4—6; bracts ovate-rotundate with long- 

 acuminate, subulate apex, margins irregularly dentate, ciliate. 



New-GuinEA: Schlechiei no. 18101, near Kenegia-river, 

 150 M., flow, on Aug. 16*, 1908. 



New-Ireland (Neu-Mecklenburg): Peekel, without 

 no., Kawieng (Pakail), common, creeping, 50—150 cM. 

 long, 20—40 cM. high.; flowers bluish white, flow, and 

 fr. in Oct. 1911. 



Var. /3. repens Schauer I.e. 586. -^ Lantana repens 

 Spr. I.e. — Lippia repens Spr. I.e. — Leaves elongate- 

 obovate, base entire up to ^4 o'f the leave, IV2 — ^5 by 



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