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membranous, lanceolate or rhomboid, acute, small, entire or sparsely 
toothed, base cuneate, the upper reduced. Flowers 3-4 in umbels in 
the axils of the leaves all down the stem, on short downy pedicels. 
Calyx % in. long; teeth lanceolate-cuspidate, as long as the tube. 
Corolla twice as long as the calyx, gradually widening from the base to 
the top of the tube. 
Rodriguez, on a small patch of coralline limestone f mile from the shore, 
j Balfour ! Endemic. 
* LANTANAj Linn. 
Calyx minute, campanulate, obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla with a 
long slender tube and an obscurely bilabiate limb, with small rounded 
lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, included in the corolla-tube. Ovary 
2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style simple ; stigma capitate. Fruit a small 
drupe, containing two 1-seeded pyrenes. — Shrubs, with simple opposite 
or whorled leaves ; the flowers in dense heads on axillary peduncles. 
Distrib. Mainly Tropical America. Species 40-50. 
Branches prickly * L. Camara. 
Branches not prickly. 
Leaves opposite * L. lilacina. 
Leaves whorled * L. trifolia. 
* L. Camara , Linn. ; Schauer in DC- Prod. xi. 598, (L. aculeata, 
Linn.; Bot. Mag. t. 96), a native of Tropical America, now widely 
spread in the Old World, is established both in Mauritius and Seychelles. 
It isasbrub 4-8 feet high, with tetragonous branches, armed with copious 
small uncinate prickles, hispid short-petioled ovate acute crenate 
leaves, globose heads on axillary peduncles 1-1 \ in. long, linear bracts 
not more than half as long as the pilose flowers, a slender corolla tube 
under \ in. long widening gradually from the base to the top and a i 
in. limb at first yellow afterwards turning orange and red and a black 
shining drupe the size of a small pea. 
* L. lilacina , Desf. ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 604, (L. fucata, 
Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 798), a native of Brazil, often cultivated in gar- 
dens, is naturalised in the Seychelles in Mahe and Silhouette. It is a 
branched undershrub with tetragonal unarmed branches clothed with 
short spreading bristly hairs, opposite ovate-rhomboid acute crenate 
rugose leaves, short-peduncled globose heads, and bracts much shorter 
than the lilac flowers. 
* L . trifolia , Linn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 606; Bot. Mag. t. 
1449, (L. annua, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1022), a native of Tropical 
America, now widely spread in the old world, is naturalised in the 
Mauritius on the Pouce range. It is a little-branched undershrub, 
with pilose unarmed hexagonal branches, 3-4-nate oblong-lanceolate 
acute crenate membranous hairy leaves, 2-3 in. peduncles, heads at first 
globose finally cylindrical 1-2 in. long, and lower bracts as long as the 
flowers, which are lilac with a yellow throat. 
L. mixta , Linn, and L. Sellowiana , Link, both also American, are included in 
Dupont’s Mauritian Catalogue. 
