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^LUMBAGO capensis. 



Cape Lead-wort. 



PENTANDR1A MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Plumbagines. Jussieu gen. 92. 



Plumb aginu. Brown prpd. I. 425. 



PLUMBAGO. Cat. tubulosus, pltcatus, 5-dentatus, p e rrigten*. Cbn 

 monopetala, hypocrateriformfe* limbo 5- parti to. Stamina hypogyna* S**- 

 Jk* filiforrois: stigmata 5 9 acuta, (Germ. 1, Hberum, monoaperararo, oviuo 

 inverso ab apice funiculi d fundo germ in is orti.) Caps, valvata: Mem. albu- 

 minosum; (mveraum; intcgumento timplici: embryo erectus: raditmta tu- 

 p«a), HerbtB v. Suffruttces camleseentes. Fotia amptexicauUa. 8pk& far- 

 minales. Flares 8-bracteatu Brown prod. 1. 485. < 



P. capensist foliis petiolatis oblongts Jntegria snhtds glaucia, canle erecto. 



Thunb. prod. 33. 

 Plumbago eapend* JFtBtf. *p.p//J . 857w I^wii.^. Mp. 1 IS, Lod&gzZ* 



hot. cab. a. £95. 



Frutctcens> ascendent, U2-pedalis v. ultrb. Rami JbUis amUares, jfexitofay 

 varicoso~ncrvosi 9 virentes, distan&r fbliosi, atoms opaco-crystaUizatit trrorati, 

 tnperni levissimS pubescentes caterum gfabri t (o\. sparsa, patentia 9 internodiis 

 Icngi&ra, petiolata, plus minus 2'3-unctaHa, transverse subauph-angustiora, oft- 

 longa, sttorkombeO'Ovata, apice rotundatis, petiolutn versus cuneata, mare ram*** 

 rum atomis exsudatis conspersa: petiolus margmatus : stipulee (recti&sforsan 

 petioiorum auricula f J gemtnce, perfbliato~oppotiia 9 nerbacea, rcttculato- 

 venosce, patentissima, subsemiorbiculato+obtatte, repandce, pturimhm brevhres 

 pctiolo, cujus margine continue. Spieae mukifiora, erect**) conferta* jasti- 

 giata 9 breves* Bores al6o~axrutescetites 9 hypocmieri/brmcs, subbs*nciales 9 ad- 

 scendentes: pedunculi ljhri, brevimmiv. subnutli: bractew ternce* herbaceo- 

 rubescenteSf Uneari-acuminatte, recurves duplo v. ultrb breviores calyce. Cal. 

 viridis, rubore passim suffusus, duplo brevtor tubo corolla 9 $~gono^ubulosut f 

 pUcis 5 patlidtoribus striatus, setts carnosis viscoso-eamtatis pateniissimis 

 atrorubentibus cchinatus. Cor*, tubus gracilis f tinea ri+clavatus 9 S-gonus, Us 

 terve longior laciniis; Hrabus saturation 5'radiatus, laciniis mneato~obwatis 

 contiguis. St &m. fy pist aguaUa tubo: fil. alia, filo serico simplici vtx eras* 

 sioras anth. violacea, introrsa, sagittato4ineares, erectm. Germ- subrotun* 

 dum glabrum. 



The species is not found in the Hortas Kewensis, though 

 cultivated in the Kew Collection many years back* It seems 

 however to have been confounded in that garden with tristis, 

 for we find a sample that had flowered there, matched in the 

 Banksian Herbarium with a spontaneous one of Plumbago 

 trtstis, a very distinct species, and known only by the 

 sample collected at the Cape by the late Mr. Francis Mas- 

 son. 



