Plumbago. pentandria monogynia. 463 



1. P. zeylanica. Willd. sp. i. 837. 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate-oblong', smooth. Racemes be- 

 sprinkled with glutinous hair. Bractes three, unequal. 



Tomba-codivelli. Rheed. Mai. 10. 15. t. 8. 



Chitraca. Asiat. Res. iv. 255. 



Sans. Patlmi, Chitrwka; also Vwhni, and all the other 

 names of fire. 



Beng. Chitra, Chita. 



A perennial shrubby plant, a native of India. 



Stems many, jointed, smooth, somewhat declining, ramous, 

 flexuous, from two to four feet long, and about the thickness 

 of a large quill. Branches nearly bifarious. Leaves alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, ovate, waved, smooth, entire, from two 

 to three inches long, and one and a half, or two broad. Peti- 

 oles short, stem-clasping, channelled, or sub-winged. Sti- 

 pules none. Racemes axillary, and also terminal, covered with 

 much short glutinous hair. Flowers pure white. Bractes 

 three-fold, one-flowered, the outer one is ten times larger than 

 the lateral one ; they are covered 1 w ith the same gluten as the 

 peduncle of the raceme, sometimes there is a fourth linear 

 bracte pressing the calyx. 



2. P. rosea. Willd. sp. i. 838. Asiat. Res. xi. 175. 

 Shrubby. Leaves ovate-oblong', smooth. Racemes smooth ; 



bractes three, smooth. 



Radix vesicatoria. Rumph. A nib. v. 453. t. 1G8. 



Schetti codiveli. Rheed. Mai. xii. 17. t. 9. 



Beng. Rwkta-chitrrt, Lall-ch/t«, 



Native of Coromandel, and other parts of India. 



Perennial, shrubby ; stems, branches, leaves, and petioles as 

 in the preceding. Racemes axillary, and also terminal, smooth. 

 Flowers large, of a bright beautiful red. Bractes three-fold, 

 one-flowered, equal, smooth; the inner or upper two united 

 between the flower and rachis. 



Obs. The specific distinguishing marks between these tw« 



