424 PLUMBAGINE® (Wright). [ Statice. 
petiole ; branches decumbent or prostrate, filiform, long, simple or 
sparingly branched; panieles erect from the upper side of the 
branches, bearing 2—6 spikelets ; spikelets 2—3-flowered, short, not 
crowded ; lower bract very short, acute, not scarious at the margin, 
upper ovate-rotundate, convex, rather acute and hyaline at the apex ; 
calyx quite glabrous; tube longer than the bracts; limb expanded, 
very shortly lobed. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Drége, 9374 ex Boissier. 
Coast Region: Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Grey / 
II. PLUMBAGO, Linn. 
Calyx tubular, glandular, hyaline between the 5 ribs, persistent ; 
lobes 5, short, erect. Corolla salver-shaped; tube slender; lobes 5, 
patent, equal or nearly so. Stamens free from the corolla; fila- 
ments filiform from a dilated base; anthers oblong-linear. Ovary 
tapering upwards; style terminal, filiform, divided in the upper 
part into 5 branches stigmatic along their inner surfaces. Capsule 
membranous, circumscissile near the base, the deciduous part often 
splitting into 5 valves from below. Endosperm scanty. 
Perennial (rarely annual) herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; leaves alter- 
nate, auricled at the base, or the petiole amplexicaul ; flowers in spikes at the 
ends of the branches, blue, rose, violet or white. 
Distris. Species about 10 in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Corolla-tube three times as long as the calyx; axis of 
spike puberulous pi a ec gy ... (1) capensis. 
Corolia-tube twice as long as the calyx ; axis of spike 
glandular... ee i cad ae oh ... (2) zeylanica. 
1. P. capensis (Thunb. Prodr. 33); stem woody, subscandent, 
_ striate; leaves entire, oblong or oblong-spathulate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, shortly mucronate, tapering downwards into a very short 
petiole, about 2 in. long and 8 in. wide, glabrous ; spikes about 2 in. 
long; rhachis puberulous ; bracteoles oblong, acute, half as long as 
the calyx; calyx 5 lin. long, pubescent, also bearing in the upper 
part glands on stalks nearly 1 lin. long; corolla pale blue; tube 
1{ in. long; limb 1 in. in diam.; lobes obovate, obtuse ; anthers 
blue ; capsule oblong-clavate, rounded above, tapering and pen- 
tagonal below. Fil. Cap. ed. Schult. 166; Bot. Mag. t, 2110; Bot. 
Reg. t. 417; Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 133, 1386; 
Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 693. P. auriculata, Poir. Encyel. ii. 270. 
P. grandiflora, Ten. Cat. Hort. Neap. 1845, 91. Plumbagidiwm 
auriculatum, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. x. 339, t. 149. 
SoutnH AFRica: without locality, Villette! Pappe! — 
Coast Ree@ion : Uitenhage Diy.; Uitenhage, Burchell, 4406! Zeyher! Addo, 
Burke ! Coega River, Pappe! Enon, under 500 ft., Drege! Zuurberg Range, 
2000-3000 ft., Drége/ and without precise locality, Zeyher, 568! Albany Div. ; 
Howisons Port, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Austr,-Afr., 589! 
British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3046 ! 
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