Lantana.] 
XCV. VERBENACE^E. 
1171 
2. L, crocea (copper-coloured). This species closely resembles L. Camara, 
but is much shorter and more compact, the heads of flowers are also the same 
size and form, but the colours are apt to sport, some plants producing white, 
others blue, the normal colour being bright red orange and yellow towards the 
centre of the head. 
Hab.: South America. Naturalised but not become troublesome. 
3. L Sellowiana (after Mr. Sellow), Link and Otto. Ic. PI. Sel. Berol. 
107, t. 50. Stems procumbent. Leaves crenate-serrate, ovate. Peduncles 2 or 
more inches long. Flower-head flatfish. Bracts ovate, imbricate, pubescent. 
Calyx minute, 4-toothed, hairy. Corolla bright purplish-red, the outside pale, 
tube dilated about the middle, yellowish at the base, lobes blunt or emarginate. 
Stamens attached near the middle of corolla-tube. — Bot. Mag. 2981. 
Hab.: South America. Naturalised about Brisbane. 
8. LIPPIA, Linn. 
(after Augustus Lippi.) 
(Zapania, Scop.) 
Calyx membranous, either flattened with 2 keels or wings and 2-lobed, each 
lobe either entire or 2-toothed, or the whole calyx more equally tubular or globular 
and 2- or 4-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical or dilated upwards, the limb more 
or less distinctly 2-lipped, the upper lip entire or 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed, all 
the lobes flat and spreading. Stamens 4, included in the tube or scarcely 
protruding. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell erect from the base. 
Fruit not succulent, separating more or less readily into two indehiscent nuts. — 
Herbs or shrubs often glandular and aromatic or strong-scented. Leaves opposite 
or whorled, undivided. Flowers small, in simple spikes or heads, each one sessile 
in the axil of a single bract, without bracteoles, the bracts often closely imbricate. 
A considerable American genus, a few species of which, including the two Australian ones, 
are also more or less widely spread over the warmer regions of the Old World. Bocquillon’s 
character of the genus (Revue, p. 147), taken probably from the examination of a single species, 
will not apply to a large portion of the genus, including the commonest species of all, L. 
nodiflora. — Benth. 
Prostrate or creeping perennial. Leaves obovate or cuneate. Peduncles 
in one axil of each pair. Calyx flat 1 L. nodiflora. 
Shrub with straggling branches. Leaves ovate. Peduncles opposite. Calyx 
globular . . 2. L. geminata. 
1. X*. nodiflora (kuot-flowered), Pacli. ; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 585; Benth. 
FlAustr. v. 35. A prostrate or creeping perennial, with shortly ascending 
flowering branches, hoary with closely appressed hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves 
from obovate to linear-cuneate, coarsely toothed at the apex, % to lin. long, 
narrowed into a petiole. Peduncles axillary but only one to each pair of leaves 
and much longer than them, each one bearing a spike at first short and ovoid, 
and sometimes very small, at length cylindrical, and when luxuriant attaining ^ 
to f in. or even more. Bracts closely imbricate, broadly spatliulate, more or less 
fringed or toothed at the end, nearly 1^ line long. Calyx shorter than the 
bract, membranous, flat, divided in front nearly to the base, at the back to 
about the middle, into two keeled lobes, entire or 2-toothed at the apex. Corolla- 
tube scarcely exceeding the calyx, the lower lip twice as long as the upper one 
and about half as long as the tube. Fruit not one line long, readily separating 
into two nuts, with one half of the calyx adhering to each. — Zapania nodiflora, 
Lam. ; R. Br. Prod. 514. 
Hab.: Shoalwater Bay ancl Broadsound, R. Brown : Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Fitzroy River, 
Tliozet ; Bowen River, Bowman; Morecou Island, M’Gillivray. 
