Chloanthes
(from chloos, greenish-yellow, and anthos, a flower; referring to the greenish flowers). ORD. Verbenaceae. Pretty greenhouse evergreen shrubs, allied to lantana. Flowers solitary, axillary, on short peduncles; corolla tube with a woolly ring on its interior, above the apex of the ovary. Leaves opposite or ternate. They thrive in a compost of fibry loam, and turfy, sandy peat. Cuttings of young shoots root freely in sandy soil, under a hand glass. C. coccinea (scarlet). fl. scarlet, nearly sessile and axillary, but collected into short leafy spikes or heads at or near the summits of the branches. l. opposite or in whorls of three, narrow and nearly terete, owing to the revolute margins, obtuse, 1/2in. to 1in. long, bullate-rugose. Stems usually clothed with a white cottony wool. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Western Australia. C. glandulosa (glandular). fl. yellowish, 1 1/2in. long, axillary; peduncles 3in. to 4in. long. July. l. lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, bullate-rugose and decurrent, about 1 1/2in. to 3in. long. h. 2ft. New South Wales, 1824. C. stoechadis (Stoechas-like).* fl. greenish-yellow. June to August. Stem erect. h. 2ft. New South Wales, 1822.