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Family 81. PLUMBAGINACEAE. 



Plumbago Family. 

 Perennial, mostly acaulescent erect herbs, with basal 

 tufted leaves and small perfect regular clustered flowers. 

 Calyx tubular or funnelform, 5-toothed, plaited at the 

 sinuses, the tube 5-15-ribbed. Corolla of 5 hypogynous 

 clawed segments, connate at the base or united into a 

 tube. Stamens 5, opposite the corolla-segments, hypo- 

 gynous; filaments separate or united at the base; anthers 

 2-celled, attached by the backs to the filaments, longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 1 -celled; ovules 

 solitary, anatropous, pendulous; styles 5, separate or 

 united. Fruit a utricle or achene, enclosed by the calyx, 

 rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; endosperm 

 mealy or none. 



1. LIMONIUM Adans. Marsh Rosemary. 



Herbs, mostly with flat basal leaves, and numerous 

 very small flowers cymose-paniculate on the branches of 

 bracted scapes, in 1-3-flowered bracteolate clusters, 

 forming 1 -sided spikes. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 

 the limb scarious, 5-toothed, the tube usually 10-ribbed. 

 Petals 5, clawed. Styles 5, separate, stigmatic along the 

 inner side. Fruit a utricle. 



L L. californicum (Boiss.) Small. Leaves 15-25 cm. long, 

 obovate-oblong, entire, fleshy-coriaceous; scape 3-6 dm. high; 

 spikes corymbose-panicled; calyx-tube more or less hairy on the 

 angles. 



Occasional in salt marshes along the coast. 



Family 82. OLEACEAE. Olive Family. 



Trees or shrubs with opposite or rarely alternate 

 simple or pinnate exstipulate entire or dentate leaves, 

 and regular perfect, polygamous or dioecious, 2-4-parted 

 flowers in terminal or axillary panicles, cymes or fascicles. 

 Calyx free from the ovary, usually small, sometimes none. 

 Stamens 2-4, inserted on the corolla; filaments usually 



