Plumbago. ] LXXXVI. PLUMBAGINEEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 481 
Rambling several feet. Leaves 3 by 14 in., acute, glabrous, or puberulous; petiole 
1 in., base dilated, amplexicaul. Spikes 4-12 in., often branched ; bracts 1 in, ovate, 
acute. Calyx 4-4 by i; in.; teeth very short.  Corolla-tube $ in.; lobes à in, 
2. P.rosea, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 462; leaves elliptic tapering to 
the short petiole, rachis of the spike glabrous, corolla red, base of style hairy. 
Wall. Cat. 7242; Bot. Mag. tt. 230, 5363; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, 1877, 
pt. ii. 218. P. coccinea, Boiss, o DC. Prodr. xii. 693.  Thela coccinea, 
Lour. Fl. CochincA. 119.— RumpA. Herb, Amb. v. t. 168. Rheede Hort. 
Mal. x.t 9. 
Valleys in Srkxm and Kuasia, wild (?). India, often cultivated; Thwaites 
thinks not wild in Ceylon; Kurz thinks not wild in Dirma.—DisTmiB. South-east 
Asia, cultivated. 
Altogether resembling P. zeylanica, and perhaps only a cultivated variety of it. 
5. CERATOSTIGMA, Junge. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, bristle-ciliate. 
Flowers capitate; bracts and bracteoles sheathing. Calyx tubular, without 
glands, deeply 5-fid; segments narrow, 3-striate. Corolla-tube elongate, slender; 
lobes round, patent. Stamens adnate to the middle of the corolla-tube, fila- 
ments linear; anthers oblong. Ovary pentagonal; tip conical; style filiform, 
with 5 stigmatose branches. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss close to 
the base, sub-5-valved.—Species 3-4; Chinese, Bhotanese and Abyssinian. 
5"' €. Griffithii, Clarke; shrubby, ferruginous-hirsute, leaves spathulate 
obovate, calyx-segments linear.. Plumbago ?, Griff. Itin. Notes, 189, n. 1007. 
BuorAN ; between Woollookka and Lamnoo very common, Griffith (alt. 8000 ft. ?), 
(Kew Distrib. n. 4181). 
A low densely branched shrub; leaves red-margined, calyces and braets brown- 
ciliate; flowers a fine blue (Griffith).—Griffith's specimen has been badly preserved ; 
the leaves on it are 2 by 4 in.; but it had probably much larger leaves. 
6. VOGELIA, Lamk. 
Small shrubs, branches long. Leaves alternate, entire. Spikes terminal, 
panicled; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx deeply 5-fid, with 5 broad trans- 
versely undulate wings between the ribs. Corolla-tude cylindric ; lobes 5, round, 
patent. Stamens free; filaments linear, base dilated; anthers oblong. Ovary 
oblong-fusiform, somewhat pentagonal; style filiform, branches 5, stigmatose 
throughout. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss at the very base.— 
Species 2, a S. African and an Indo-Arabian. 
V. indica, Gibs. ms.; Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 17, and Ie. 
1075; leaves perfoliate elliptic obtuse or orbicular. DC. Prodr. xii. 696; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 870. V. arabica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 696; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fil. 220. 
Western Inpia; Canara, Gibson, &e.; Mt. Aboo, Stocks, Brandis.—DisTRrE. 
Arabia. 
Puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 24 by 1} in. (sometimes twice as large), deeply 
cordate, more or less perfoliate. Spikes dense. Calyx $ by 4 in. Corolla-tube 
2in.; lobes j in. Style hairy at the base. 
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