Tab. 5363. 



PLUMBAGO rosea, var. coccinea. 



Bose Leadwort, scarlet var. 



Nat. Ord. Plumbagine2E. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx insertione rectus, tubulosus, post anthesin ssepe conicus, 

 inter 5 costas latas herbaceas tota longitudine vel superne stipitato-glandulosas 

 ad basin usque hyalino-membranaceas, apice quinquedentatus. Corolla gamo- 

 petala, bypocraterimorpha, tubo calycera superante, Umbo rotato quinquepartito. 

 Stamina 5, hypogyna ; filamenta basi subdilatata carnosula concafiuscula in 

 discum lobaturn sub ovario conniventia. Antherce lineares, basi bifidse. Ovarium 

 ovatum vel oblongura, stylo filiformi superatum. Stigmata 5, filiformia, latere 

 interiori glandulis pluriseriatus dense obsita. Utrieulus membranaceus, styli basi 

 persistente mucronatus, ima basi teneriori irregulariter et circurascisse ruptus, 

 dein a basi ad medium aut a parte media jam fenestrata basin versus secus an- 

 guios valvatim fissus, valvis apice cohserentibus. Semen ovatum, oblongum. — 

 Herbse perennes, Europcece, vel frutices tropici, rarius Capenses, ramis scandentibus ; 

 floribus subsessilibus, in spicas plus minus elongatas dispositis, sinyulo tribracteato, 

 bracteis planis. Calycis cestivatione valvaris. Corolla nunquam xanthica, cestiv. 

 contorta, post anthesin emarcida, tubo sub limbo horizontaliter tortili dein paulo 

 supra basin utriculi elongatione rupto. Integumentum seminis in hoc genere 

 eximie pellucido-punctulatum, nee ut in toto ordine laviusculum. Boiss. in Be Cand. 



Plumbago rosea; caulibus herbaceis erectis elatis teretibus tenuiter striatis 

 inferne simplicibus superne ramosis, foliis magnis oblongis superne atte- 

 nuatis obtusiusculis basi breviter cuneatis in petiolum, brevissimum amplexi- 

 caulem exauriculatum attenuatis, floribus in spicas terminates et ex axillis 

 superioribus oriundas longissimas virgatas laxas post anthesin elongatas 

 dispositis, rachide spicae glaberrima, bracteis ovatis cuspidatis subsequalibus 

 calyce quadruplo brevioribus fere pellucidis, calyce rubello breviter cylin- 

 drico breviter et acute 5-dentato ad 5 costas tota longitudine glandulis sti- 

 pitatis bifariis aliis subsessilibus intermixtis obsito, corollse tubo tenui calyce 

 quadruplo longiore, limbi ampli partitionibus ovatis rotundatis nervo excur- 

 rente cuspidatis. Boiss. 



Plumbago rosea. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 215. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 230 (a very indif- 

 ferent specimen). 

 Thalia coccinea. Lour. Fl. Cochin, ed. Willd. v. 1. p. 147. 

 Plumbago coccinea. Boiss. in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 693. 

 Plumb agidium roseum. Spach, Teg. Phan. v. 10. 

 Var. coccinea ; larger, subscandent, flowers remarkably secund, scarlet. 



Few would recognize this most lovely plant as the Plumbago 

 rosea ordinarily seen in stoves and greenhouses, and figured by 



FEBRUARY 1ST, 1863. 



