The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . have been practised bythe Eomans. Spom Encyc. Manuf., I. 509. lantl (lant), r. t [/((/(., the lance. [Cornwall, Eng.]I lant^t. An obsolete preterit of lend^.iLantana (lau-tana), «. [NL. (Linnreus).] 1.! A genus of gamopetalous plants of the naturalI order Verhenace(e, tribe Verbenea: type of End-; liehers tribe and De CandoUes subtribe Lan-i tanew, characterized by a small, membrana-1 ceoiis, truncate, sinuose-dentate caljx, a corol-\ la with 4 or 5 lobes, and a
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . have been practised bythe Eomans. Spom Encyc. Manuf., I. 509. lantl (lant), r. t [/((/(., the lance. [Cornwall, Eng.]I lant^t. An obsolete preterit of lend^.iLantana (lau-tana), «. [NL. (Linnreus).] 1.! A genus of gamopetalous plants of the naturalI order Verhenace(e, tribe Verbenea: type of End-; liehers tribe and De CandoUes subtribe Lan-i tanew, characterized by a small, membrana-1 ceoiis, truncate, sinuose-dentate caljx, a corol-\ la with 4 or 5 lobes, and a .juicy drupe. Some 40, or 60 species are known, chiefly tropical or subtropicalAmerican, but a few are natives of Asia and Africa. They are mostly low shrubs, but sometimes climbing high,Bometimes mere herbs, with opposite toothed leaves,[ often roughened, and dense spikes or heads of smallishI red, orange, white, or variously colored flowers sessile ia 3349. Lantana mutahilis. a, flower; b, flower cut longitudinally, showing pistil and two of the stamens : c, fruits. the axils of bracts. Two of the tropical American species{h. trifolia and L. Camara)h&ve become extensively natu-ralized in the (lid World. Many of the species are culti-vated as greenlionse-plants and set out in summer, flower-ing freely till frost, the flowers and herbage being some-times pleasantly odorous, .\mong the most common ofthese are L. Camara, L. mixta, L. nivea, L. involucrata,and i. Sellowiana. The flowers of most of these specieschange their color with age. In Jamaica the plants of thisgenus are called imld Four species are found withinthe limits of the United States, chiefly in the mncrophylla is employed in infusions as a stimulant,and L. pseudo-ttiea as a substitute for [I. c] A plant of the genus Lantana. Lantaneae(lan-tane-e),;?. [NL. (Endlicher,1836), < Lantana + -cce.] A tribe of plants ofthe order Verbenacea, founded
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