Lantana.] 



68. vi<bbenace;e. 



267 



Frnit nearly dry, small, included in the calyx, a 

 l-scuxlcd pyrenc. 



Cymes 3-9 flowei-ed, capitate ; bracts 3-C, large, 



involueriform ... 7. SrMriiOUEMA. 



Fruit a hard bony endocarp, J-4-celled, surronndrd 

 by a spongy pericarp, enclosed in the inflated, 

 urceolate calyx. 

 Cymes in large terminal panicles. Corolla re- 

 gular. Bracts small, narrow ... ... 8. Tectona. 



Fruit capsular, fleshy, dehiscent, seeds scmetimes 

 germinating on the tree. 



Vlowers small, in densely capitate cyme?. 

 Corolladimb of 4, equal segments. Bracts 

 and bracteoles small 9. Avicennia. 



.1. , LANTANA, Liad. 



Shrubs ; branches 4-sided, sometimes prickly. Leaves simple, 

 crenate often rugose. Flowers in peduneled bracteate heads ; 

 bracts conspicuous, exceeding the calyx ; bracteoles. Calyx small, 

 membranous. Corolla-tube slender, limb spreadino^, lobes unequal. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stigma oblique, cells 2-ovuled. Drnpe 

 Jieshy, coutaiuing two bony 1-celled pyreaes. Seeds without albu- 

 men ; radicle inferior. 



Branches hairy or strigose, not prickly. Bracts 

 .broad, veined ' I. L. indica. 



Branches with recurved prickles. Bracts linear, 



small... 2. Z. Camara, 



1. L. indica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46 ; Fl. Ind. III. 89 ; FL Br. L 4. 562. 

 L. alha, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 198 ; Brandis For. Fl. 369. Ghaneri, M. 



Throughout India and Ceylon in the warmer pai'ts, common ; on river 

 banks of Bengal one of the commonest weeds. FJ. Br. I. " Thinly 

 scattered throughout the presidency," Dalzell. Common in the Kadur 

 district of Mysore, near coffee plantations. The variety alhiflora, 

 Wight, is also abundant at the base of the Bababuden hills, in dry forests. 

 Flowers throughout the year. A small shrub. 



2. Z, Gamcbra, Linn. Fl. Br. I. 4. 562. L. aculeata, Linn. ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 68. Ghaneri, M. ; Chadurang, K. 



A native of America, run wild in many parts of ludia. Very common 

 in waste places near villages throughout the presidency, often in hedges ; 

 sometimes scandent. Fl. and Fr. throughout the year. 



A. gregarious shrub. A serious evil on cultivated and pasture lands, and 

 even in forests owing to its great vitality and the difficulties of eradication. 

 This bushy species occupies waste or semi-disforested areas, forming 

 impenetrable thickets near villages in many parts of the Bombay 

 presidency, North Kdnara, Bclgaum, Dharwar and other districts. 



