— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Plumbago, 
Branches numerous, spreading in every direction. Leaves 
opposite, decussate, patent, short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, 
taper, obtuse-pointed, entire, nerveless and smooth on: both 
‘sides ; from four to five inches long, and about one and a half 
broad. Petioles short, smooth, enlarged at the base into a 
stem-clasping ring, which in the dried specimens are encrust- 
ed with a clear yellow resin. Corymbs peduncled, axillary, — 
nearly as long as the leaves, decompound, decussate, smooth. 
Flowers numerous, large, whitish yellow, fragrant. Bractes: 
small, permanent. Calyx beneath, deeply five-parted, or ra- 
ther five-leaved ; permanent. Leaflets sub-rotund, imbricat- 
ed, smooth, many times shorter than the tube of the corol. 
Corol one-petalled... Tube between campanulate and infun- 
dibuliform. Border contorted, five-parted ; divisions ovate-: 
eblong, expanding. _ Filaments five, ascending, inserted in 
the mouth of the tube, and, much longer than the corol. . An- 
thers incumbent. Germ above, ovate. Style, the length of 
the stamens. Stigma enlarged, entire. Berry oval; a little 
pointed, size of a currant, smooth, red, pulpy, wile 
Seed several in each cell, angular, and scabrous. ntpae 
“2, F. elliptica. R. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, caiiliniee iid aad 
firm. Corymbs terminal, more than ne 
Tube of the corol cylindric. 
_ A native of the Moluccas, 
PLUMBAGO. Schreb. gen. N.281.. °° -, 
Calyx gibbous, five-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped:) Sta- ; 
mina. inserted into the tops of the five nectarial seales which 
embrace the germ. htc five-cleft., premqnegeecs : 
iy ; eahoat <tr Ape 
tris) 5 basgono 
Hist anh es Ww, 
