84 Flora of tlic Malaijan Peninsula 



Malacca: Jack; Griffith (K.D.) 3453/1 ; 71/a%a?/ (K.D.) 704 ; Lohh ; 

 on Mount Ophir, Moxon ; Bidlcy. Singapoke : Jack ; Sir R. Scliom- 

 burgk 50; Wallich 3720; Bidley 1832. — Distrib. Bangka, Te7jsmann; 

 Borneo, Bidley. 



Vae. moliLccana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 217, and 

 For. Fl. II. 96. Leaves "5 to 1 in. long, subulate-pointed, venation 

 more prominent, branchlets more slender. L. moluccanum, Scheff. 

 Obs. Phyt. III. 97. 



Kedah peak : Low. — Distrib. Tenasserim, Heifer (K.D.) 3453. 



Order LXIX. PLUMBAGINE^. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves various, alternate or fascicled. 

 Floivers in terminal scapes or branches, capitate, spicate, racemed or 

 panicled ; bracts scarious or leafy, often sheathing the flower, bracteoles 

 2; Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, tubular or funnel-shaped, 5- to 10- 

 ribbed, often hyaline between the ribs ; lobes 5, usually scarious. 

 Corolla hypogynous ; petals 5, free or connate at the base or united in 

 a linear tube ; lobes spreading. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; fila- 

 ments free or adnate in a tube with the corolla ; anthers ovate or oblong, 

 dorsifixed, cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 

 sessile or very shortly stalked, 1-celled, 5-angular above; styles 5, 

 distinct from the base or connate below ; stigmas sub-capitate ; 

 ovule 1, pendulous from a basal ascending funicle, anatropous. Fruit 

 included in the calyx or elongate or exsert, dry or indehiscent, mem- 

 branous or hardened at the apex, circumsciss or breaking near the thin 

 base, the apex often 5-valved. Seeds cylindric or elongate, pendulous, 

 albumen copious or little or 0, radicle superior ; embryo straight, coty- 

 ledons linear or oblong. — Distrib. Species about 200, mostly of sea- 

 coasts or desert places throughout the world. 



Large shrubs with broad-petioled leaves ; styles 5, distinct ; stamens 



united in a tube with the corolla .. .. .. ..1. ^E&ialitis. 



Perennial herbs with auriculate leaves ; style 1, filiform, with 5 stig- 



matic branches ; stamens free . . . . . . . . 2. Plomb.\go. 



1. iFGIALITIS, E. Br. 



Simple-stemmed, soft-wooded shrubs. Leaves orbicular, alternate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, entire, smooth, gland-dotted, reticulately- veined, 

 with long, thick, winged, amplexicaul petioles. Floivers in axillary or 

 terminal panicles of racemes; bract 1, sheathing, coriaceous, obtuse ; 

 enclosing the 2 bracteoles. Calyx tubular, folded ; lobes 5, short, 

 induplicate-valvatc. Corolla usually shorter than calyx, lobes 5, 

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