Vinea. — -Plumiera. Cat 
1041. Vinea maior L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 304. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. IV, p.45. — Rehbch. Ic. XVIII, tab. 22. — A little shrub, 
with a creeping rootstock, long, trailing, barren shoots, and nearly 
erect, simple flowering stems, about a foot high.’ Leaves broadly 
ovate, evergreen, and shining, but bordered by minute hairs. Pedicels 
shorter than the leaves. Calyx-segments narrow, ciliate on the edges. 
Corolla’ large, blue; the tube broad, almost bell-shaped, though 
slightly contracted at the mouth; the lobes broad, almost angular. 
— Flow. March ‘to April. 
M. ma. N. d. N. v. Often cultivated in gardens and sometimes 
seminaturalized. 
In woods and shady banks, in Southern Central Europe to the Caucasus, 
but having been long cultivated for ornament, and spreading with great 
rapidity by its rooting stems. 
421. (3.) Plumiera Linn. 
Calyx small, eglandular within; sepals 5, almost free, imbricate, 
usually broad and obtuse, sometimes unequal or partly or wholly 
suppressed. Corolla salver-shaped; tube cylindric, slender, slightly 
widened at the base, without appendages in the mouth; lobes 5, broad, 
oblong,’ overlapping to the left, straight or more or less twisted, 
Stamens in the widened base of the corolla-tube; anthers free from 
the stigma, oblong, apiculate, 2-lobed at the base; anther-cells 
polliniferous and dehiscent to the base. Disk 0. Ovary apocarpous, 
semi-inferior; carpels 2; style very short, columnar; stigma just 
below the anthers, ellipsoid, copiously viscous in the lower part, 
somewhat constricted above, with a thick papillose rig. below the 
2-fid, stout apiculus; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Mericarps folli- 
cular, divaricate, elliptic to linear in outline, coriaceous. Seeds 
oblong or lanceolate, flattened, winged at the apex or all round; 
endosperm fleshy, thin; cotyledons oblong or ovate-cordate; radicle 
short. — Trees or tall shrubs, usually with stout branches. Leaves 
alternate; petioles usually long; secondary nerves numerous, straight, 
connected by a more or less conspicuous marginal nerve; axillary 
stipules 0; petiole resinous at the base, without external glands. 
Flowers rather large, white or pink, frequently with a yellow centre 
or quite yellow, in contracted or ultimately elongate cymes arran- 
ged in terminal, often umbelliform corymbs or panicles, and supported 
by often large, caducous bracts. 
Species 30—40, natives of tropical America; some of them naturalised 
or commonly cultivated in the tropics of the Old World. 
1042. Plumiera rubra L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.209. — 
Bot. Mag., tab. 279. — Lam. Encyclop. IL, p. 308 tab, 173 fig. 1. — 
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