478 LXXXV. DIAPENSIACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Diapensia. 
Ordrer LXXXV. DIAPENSIACEIE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Very small, prostrate shrubs. Leaves alternate or crowded, entire or toothed. 
Flowers solitary or racemose. Calyx 5-partite, persistent ` segments imbricate. 
Corolla hypogynous; lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, on the throat of the 
corolla, alternate with its lobes; anthers dehiscing by slits. Dise 0. Ovary 
free, globose, 3-celled ; style cylindric, stigma shortly 3-lobed ; ovules few or 
many in the inner angles of the cells. Capsule coriaceous, 3-celled, loculicidally 
S-valved. Seeds many, minute, albuminous.—Species 8, in N. America, Europe, 
Japan, and the Eastern Himalaya. 
l. DIAPENSIA, Linn. 
Very small, glabrous shrubs. Leaves crowded, obovate-oblong, entire, coria- 
ceous, Flowers at the ends of the branches, solitary, peduncled, white or rose- 
red. Calyx 2-3-bracteate ; sepals broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla campanulate, 
persistent; lobes spreading, round. Anthers subsessile, cells oblique; stami- 
nodes 0, Seeds very many, minute, subcubie ; testa lax. 
D. himalaica, H. f. $ T. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 372, t. 12; leaves 
subacute, flowers subsessile, tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
fruiting peduncle 1-3 in. 
Dep Himaraya; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Lachen and Chola Pass, J. D. H., &c. 
Densely tufted. Leaves 4 in. Sepals in flower-time dÄ in, ovate; in fruit 
nearly 4 in., obovate-oblong. —Corolla-tube } in., lobes iin. Capsule 3-2 in. diam, 
ORDER LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers in terminal scapes or peduncles, capitate, 
racemed or panieled; bracts often scarious on the margins, usually sheathing 
the flower; bracteoles 2, Calyx inferior, tubular, 5—10-ribbed, often hyaline 
between the ribs mouth frequently funnel-shaped, scarious. Petals 5, free or 
connate at the base into a very short tube with the filaments, rarely united into 
a linear tube, spreading. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; filaments nearly free or 
adnate below to the corolla ; anthers oblong. Hypogynous disc 0. Ovary superior, 
I-celled, 5-angular above; styles 5, distinct from the base or connate below, 
stigmas subcapitate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal ascending funicle, ana- 
tropal. Capsule membranous or the apex hardened, included in the calyx (in 
Avyiakitis linear, long-exsert), cireumsciss or rupturing near the thin base, the 
hardened apex often 5-valved. Seeds cylindric (in Æygialitis elongate), pendu- 
lous; albumen various or 0; radicle superior.—Species 200, throughout thé 
world, mostly in maritime or saline places. 
TRIBE I. Staticese. Styles 5, distinct ; stigmas subcapitate. Stamens 
very shortly united at the base into a tube with the corolla. 
Large shrub, with broad petioled leaves. . . . . . . . ,. |. ZEÉc1ALITIS, 
Herbs or small shrubs, with linear prickly leaves . . . . . 92. ACANTHOLIMON, 
Herbs or small shrubs, with obovate leaves  . CC V»... 9. QOTATIOR 
Trise IL Plumbages. Style 1, filiform, divided into 5 stigmatose 
branches, 
Calyx glandular, stamens free, flowers spicate . . . . , , 4. PLUMBAGO. 
Calyx eglandular, stamens adnate to the middle of the corolla- 
tube, flowers capitate "Ab a e irc Soi a 5. CERATOSTIGMA. 
Calyx eglandular, 5-winged, stamens free, flowers spicate. . , 6, Vogeria, 
