984 
INDIAN M KDKUN A I, IT, ANTS. 
about somn of the medicinal properties of the roofs, leaves 
and flowers of Lantana Indica. 
944. L. Camara, Linn., h.f.b.i., iv. 562. 
Vern : — Ghaneri (M) ; Chadurang (Kan) (According to 
Talbot. I. P. Fleiderer gives the following Kanarese equivalents of 
the plant — Natahu, hesigetin, kasutiluivina-gida). Arippu (Mai). 
Habitat : — A native of America, run wild in many parts of 
India. “ Shade ultimately kills it, but it has the power of 
scrambling up the branches of low trees and so reaching the 
hight. Its rapid diffusion has been much helped bv birds, 
which are fond of the berries.” (Trirnen). 
A gregarious straggling scandefit shrub. Branches 1-sided 
with recurved prickles. Leaves simple, ovate acute. Flowers 
in small head, pretty, pink-orange or lilac, and of many shades 
in the same plant. Bracts linear small. Calyx small, mem- 
branous. Corolla-tube slender, limb spreading, lobes unequal. 
Ovrary 2-celled ; Drupe freshv. Seeds without albumen. 
Uses: — In Mexico, the leaves of a species of Lantana, 
when boiled with barley, are given to women in childbirth. 
Another species of Lantana is much used to relieve indigestion. 
In Vol. 16 of the Pharmaeutical Journal and transactions published in tho 
year 1885 there appears a short article where it is. stated that a new alkaloid 
named “ bantam ne ” was discovered by Dr. Negrete, in Lantana brasiliensis, 
a plant which was used by Dr. B. Buiza in the central hospital at Lima, as an 
antipyretic; it stated that “Lantaninc” like Quinine, depresses the circu- 
lation and lowers the temperature. Intermittent fevers which have not 
yeilded to treatment with Quinine, have given way under the use of 2 grams 
of lantanine. 
On page 497 oL-ApothebS^zeitung of 1909 it is stated that the leavesof 
Lantana Odorata are used in West Indies and South America for aromatic 
baths in rheumatic complaints, also as infusions for eatarrahal diseases and 
as gargles. 
In Chemischcs Central Bliatt of 1905 on page 307 it is stated that the fresh 
bark of tho stem of Lantana Camara contains G0'» water, 6 25% ash, 0 ( 8% of a 
crystalline substance (Lantaninc) 0’051"i of a rubber-like substance, 1705% 
besin, 2-21% rcsinic acid but no tannic acid ; the barb of the root, of Lantana 
Camara is supposed to contain tannic acid on the other hand. 
Bacon writing in the Philippine Journal of Science in 1909 about the oil of 
Lantana Camara states that it possesses a pleasant odour and that tho plant 
flourishes with such extraordinary profusion in the Philippines (hat it would 
undoubtedly pay to cultivate it. 
