26G IXVIII. PLUMBAGINE^. 



Calyx* tubular, smooth. Styles free or nearly so. Stigmas terminal, 

 capitate. Fruit narrow, elongated, exscrtcd. Shrub^ with petiolate 

 leaves ,..,..... 1. -^Gi alius. 



Calyx dilated at the top. Styles free, stigmatic ia the upper part. Fruit 



enclosed in the calyx. Herb with radical leaves 2. Statice. 



Calyx tubular, ^laudular-muricate. Styles united up to the base of the 

 stis^matie branches. Fruit enclosed in the calyx. Erect or half-climb- 

 ing, leafy shrub 3. Tlumbago. 



1. ^GIALITIS, R. Br. 



(^gialinites, Fresl.) 



Calyx tuljular, with 5 prominent ribs ending in sliort teeth with iiulupli- 

 cate margins. Petals slightly cohering at the base. Stamens slightly ad- 

 hering to the base of the petals. Styles free or scarcely coliering at the 

 base; stigmas small, terminal, capitate. . Fruit narrow, elongnted. Seed 

 without albumen. — Shrubs, Leaves broad, petiolate. Flowers nearly ses- 

 sile along the branches of a dichotqmous panicle. 



The genus is limited to a single species, extending to the seacoasts of some parts of tropical 

 Asia, 



1. -ffi. annxjlata, R, Br. Prod. 42fi. A low glabrous shrub, the 

 branches marked with the annular scars of fallen leaves. Leaves on Ion?, 

 winged, sheathing petioles, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, obtuse, entire, 

 coriaceous, with numerous fine parallel veins diverging from the midrib, ^ to 

 4 in. long. Panicle with few rigid branches, not much exceeding the ^^^^^^' 

 Flowers very shortly pedicellate, solitary Avithin erect, concave bracts, whicb 

 enclose the calyx and are nearly as long, with two much smaller bracteoles 

 at the base of the calyx. Calyx 3 to 3|- lines long, the ribs smooth. Petals 

 white, narrow, shortly exceeding the calyx. Stamens not exceeding the co- 

 rolla, the short adnate base of the filaments dilated and thickened. Fruit 

 linear, incurved, 5-angled, \\ in. long, scarcely above 1 line broad, the peri- 

 carp thinly coriaceous. Seed filling the cavitv; testa membranous ; embryo 

 divided nearly to the middle into linear cotyledons, enclosing a linear-couicai 

 plnmula.— Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. t. 51; Boiss. in DC Prod. xn. 6^1, 

 ^gialinites anmdata, Presl, Bot. Bern. 103. 



Qneensland, Seacoast, amongst the Rhizophoras, Prince of Wales Islands, H- Brown; 

 Howick's group, F. Mueller; Cape York, Baemel ; Port Denison, Fifzalan; Titzroy nv , 



coasts of Timor, and of the Malayan Peninsula. The Ti^meJ^^ 

 Preoccupied in zoology, — a reasou now generally ackuo^ic ^ 



ThozeL 



It is also found ou the ,.uaai,3 vj 

 altered hy Presl, as being preoccup 

 he insufficient. 



2. STATICE, Llim. 



(Tasantliema, E. Br.') 



Calyx more or less expanded at the top into a dn% membranous, colotire . 

 and slightly 5-lobed limb, each lobe traversed by a green or dark nerve- 

 Petals slightly united at the base. Styles free, ending in linear-terete stv 

 rans. Fruit included in the calyx. Seed more or less albuminous.— lie^ 

 or rarely undershrubs. Leaves usually radical Flowers solitary or 2 or 



