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LANTANA ACULEATA. PRICKLY LANTANA.


_Class and Order._

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 4-dentatus obsolete. _Stigma_ uncinato-refractum. _Drupa_ nucleo
2-loculari.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LANTANA _aculeata_ foliis oppositis, caule aculeato ramoso spicis
hemisphæricis. _Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 566._

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According to MILLER, this species grows naturally in _Jamaica_,
and most of the other Islands in the _West-Indies_, where it is called
_wild Sage_; the flowers, which are very brilliant, are succeeded by
roundish berries, which, when ripe, turn black, having a pulpy covering
over a single hard seed.

It is readily propagated by cuttings.

Different plants vary greatly in the colour of their blossoms, and the