480 LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Statice, 
Secr. I. Limonium. Petals entire or emarginate. 
l. S. Stocksii, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 664; leaves spathulate-oblong 
glabrous fleshy, calyx pilose without limb subtruncate, Wight Ill. ii. 225, t. 
178; Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 897 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 868. 
Scinpe; Stocks, Dalzell.—DisTurs. Beloo histan. 
Height 6-10 in.; branches woody, leafy. Leaves 3 by } in., obtuse, tapering 
much at the base; petiole hardly any. — Scapes dividing into a secund panicle ; bracts 
d in., elliptic, herbaceous, reddish. Calyx } in., ribs long-ciliate. Petals longer than 
the calyx, entire or emarginate, rose-pink. Anthers long-exsert. 
2. S. cabulica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 606 ; leaves all radical rosulate 
spathulate-oblong obtuse mucronate, panicle large dichotomous, branches long, 
calyx minutely pilose withont, limb at first subtruncate ultimately with linear 
recurved divisions. Botss. Fl. Orient. iv. 871. 
PunsaB ; Jhelum valley and lower hills west of the Indus, alt. 2-4000 ft., Stewart. 
—Disrris. Affghanistan. 
Annual. Leaves lj by $ in. densely rosulate, Scape 1-3 ft., solitary, erect, 
glabrous; flowers subsessile, scattered along the branches; bracts l in., ovate or 
oblong, obtuse, mucronate, coriaceous, scarious margin narrow,  Calyz-(ube 4-4 in., 
very narrow; limb at first funnel-shaped, subtruncate, scarious, with 6 ribs; in fruit 
the membranous portion breaks up and almost entirely disappears, the 5 ribs are 
recurved. 
Secr. II. Schizopetalum. Petals bifid half-way down. 
3. S. macrorrhabdos, Poiss. Diagn. 2, iv. 67, and FI. Orient. iv. 869 ; 
var. Thomsont, Clarke; leaves all radical rosulate spathulate-orbicular obtuse 
or emarginate rarely minutely mucronate, calyx with tufts of small spreading 
hairs. Statice, sect. Schizopetali sp. altera, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. ii. 626. 
West Tiset; Falconer; Ladak, T. Thomson.  Baltisthan, alt. 9000 ft., Clarke. 
Annual. Leaves 2 by 13-2 in. Scapes 1-3 ft., glabrous; flowers in clusters of 
2-4, sessile along the branches; bracts } in., ovate, mucronate, coriaceous with 
searious margin. Calyr-tube 4 in, limb funnel-shaped, truncate, scarious, 5-ribbed. 
Petals divided to the base of the lamina into two lanceolate-linear divisions.— This 
was considered specifically distinct from S. macrorrhabdes (a native of Affghanistan 
and Beloochistan) by Sir J. D. H., and would be so according to Boissier's views. 
4. PLUMBAGO, Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs; branches diffuse. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers 
spiked ; bracts and bracteoles shorter than the calyx. Calyx tubular, covered 
with stalked glands; limb 5-fid. Corolla-tube long, slender; lobes 5, round, 
patent. Stamens free; filaments linear, dilated at base; anthers oblong. Ovary 
rarrowed at the apex; style slender, with 5 terminal branches stigmatose 
nearly throughout their length. Capsule membranous, circumsciss near the 
base.— Species 10, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
l. P. zeylanica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. xii. 692; leaves ovate suddenly 
narrowed into the petiole, rachis of the spike pubescent or glandular, corolla 
white, base of style glabrous. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13, and Fi. Ind.i. 462 ; Wall. 
Cat. 7241; Wight IU. t. 179; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 220; Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. 1877, ii. 217 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 875. P. auriculata, Blume Rod, 
736. Thela alba, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 119.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 8. 
Throughout Ten, much cultivated and readily spreading ; wild in the south, - 
Kurz thinks not wild in Birma; Watt thinks wild in Bengal.—Disrris, Throughout 
the tropies of the Old World, 
