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XCV. VERBENACEjE. 
[Spartothammis. 
This plant had been placed in Myoporineae and retained there by A. De Candolle (who had no 
specimens in an examinable state) owing to Walpers having erroneously described the radicle 
as superior. F. v. Mueller, in referring it correctly to Verbenaceae (Fragm. vi. 153) adduces 
Teucridium. Hook. f. from New Zealand, as a second species, which, however, can scarcely be 
admitted — the anthers and lobed ovary and fruit of the latter plant showing a nearer relation 
to Oxera and a few other genera which connect Verbenaceae with the tribe Ajugoideae of 
Labiats. The albuminous seeds branching hairs and other characters of Spartothammis are 
quite those of Chloanthese. 
Var. puberulus. Separated from S.juncea by Baron Mueller on account of its stellate down, 
larger leaves, shorter pedicels to the flowers, less pointed segments of calyx, and the stellate 
hairs on the outside of the corolla. — S. puberulus, F. v. M. in Wing’s Sou. Sci. Bee., Mar. 1882. 
Hab.: Maranoa and Warrego. 
6. NESOGENES, A. DC. 
(The plants occurring upon islands). 
Calyx-tube oblong ; teeth 5, large, rather unequal. Corolla-tube funnel- 
shaped ; lobes 5, round, nearly equal. Stamens 4, obscurely didynamous, shorter 
than the corolla; filaments short. Ovary obovoid, 2-celled ; ovules solitary in 
the cells ; style simple ; stigma capitate. Fruit a small dry drupe, enclosed in 
the persistent calyx-tube. — Herbs or shrubs, with small opposite leaves and 
flowers solitary or fascicled in their axils. 
1. N. euphrasioides (Euphrasia-like), A. DC., Prod. xi. 703. Branches 
opposite pubescent. Leaves opposite, scarcely ^in. long, ovate, somewhat acute, 
entire or crenate-dentate, pubescent and shortly attenuate to the petiole. Pedicels 
short. Calyx pubescent, tube 5-ribbed. Ovary ovoid attenuated into the filiform 
style. Drupe mucronate by the remains of the style, girt by the persistent calyx, 
2-celled, cells 1-seeded . — Myoporum (!) euphrasioides, Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 
Voy. 67. 
Hab.: Whitsunday Island. 
7. -LANTANA, Linn. 
(From lento, to bend ; one of the ancient names of the Viburnum). 
Calyx small and thin, truncate or sinuately toothed. Corolla-tube slender ; 
the limb spreading, 4- or 5-lobed, nearly regular or slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 
4, included in the tube. Ovary 2-celled, with one ovule in each cell erect from 
the base. Fruit a more or less succulent drupe, the putamen 2-celled or dividing 
into two 1 -celled pyrenes. — Shrubs or rarely herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
in pedunculate axillary heads, rarely lengthening into spikes, each one sessile or 
nearly so within a small bract without bracteoles. 
A considerable genus, chiefly from tropical or subtropical America. The ovary in this and 
the following genus, as shown by Bocquillon, although containing only 2 cells corresponding 
to the half-cells of other genera, is yet bicarpellary, one half only of each carpel being developed. 
— Benth. 
Shrubs with prickly stems. 
Flowers yellow, or orange turning red 1. L. Camara. 
Flowers bright-red, yellow in the centre 2. L. crocea. 
Stems procumbent 
Flowers purplish red 3. L. Selloiciana. 
1. I*. Camara (old generic name), Linn.; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 598; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 34. A tall shrub with long weak branches, often armed 
with short recurved prickles, and more or less hairy. Leaves petiolate, ovate or 
slightly cordate, crenate, 2 to 3 in. long, wrinkled and very rough with short stiff 
hairs. Flowers yellow or orange, turning to a deep red ; the heads not lenthening 
into spikes. Bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the corolla. Corolla-tube 3 
to 4 lines long, lobes of the limb short and broad. 
Hab.: A common species in tropical America. Naturalised and become a great pest. 
