5. Sphenoclea.] so. CAMFANULACE^. 



or shortly petioled, entire. Heads terminal or leaf-opposed -3-1" 

 long pedvmcled. Fls. -05" diam., sepals united below on the line of 

 dehiscence of the capsule and falling- off with the lid. Minute petals 

 white. 



Ill swamps^, but not common. Orissa, Cnttack ! Fl,, Fr. nearly all the year 

 round, 



FAM. 81. PLUMBAGINACEiE. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate often fleshy simple leaves. Flowers 

 capitate, raceiued or jjanicled on terminal scajses or peduncles with 

 the bracts often scarious and usually sheathing the flower, bracteol8& 

 2. Calyx inferior tubular, 5-10-i'ibbed, mouth frequently funnel- 

 shaped scarious. Petals free or gamopetalous with a very short tube, 

 rarely with a linear tube. Stamens o opp. the petals and often 

 adnate below to the corolla. Disc 0. Ovary superior, 1-celled, 5- 

 angular above, styles 5, free or connate, stigmas sub-capitate. Ovule 

 ] , pendulous from a basal ascending f unicle, anatropous. Fruit 

 capsular membranous or with a hardened apex, rupturing near the 

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

 albuminous or not, radicle superior. 



Styles distinct. Shrubs with fl^.. in panicled racemes . . ,1. JEghtJiti^. 



Styles united. Shrubs or undershrnbs Avith sjiicate tis. . . .2. Plnmbaf/o^ 



1. ^GIALITIS, E. Br. 



A glabrous small tree or shrub with broad coriaceous leaves and 

 petiole dilated downwards with amplexicaul and winged (adnate 

 stipules ?) base. Flowers white or pale yellow in panicled racemes 

 with the pedicel included in the sheathing bract and bracteoles. 

 Calyx tubular strongly ribbed. Petals linear gamopetalous below 

 with the filaments adnate to the persistent tube. Styles distinct, on 

 the angles of the ovary. Ovule large linear. Fruit linear. Embryo 

 free with large hypocotyl and 2 small spreading cotyledons and small 

 white radicle. Albumen 0. 



1. JE. rotundifolia, Roxh. Bana Euar, Or. 



Leaves orbicular or broadly ovate l'5-3" long with fine close 

 spreading parallel nervation reticulate between the nerves and a 

 long fleshy petiole l"5-2" long with sheathing membranous base. 

 Peduncles from the sheathing base of the petiole and terminal^ 

 racemes l'5-2" long. Calyx '5" with small 2-fid teeth terminating 

 the ribs. Petals with erect linear-oblong lobes 'S". Filaments long. 

 CapsiUe '7". 



Deltaic swamps of the Mahanadi, Cuttack I Fl. Dec. -Jan. Fr. May. 



Bark s'l'^y, soft, lenticellate. The wood is very abnormal. 6ra>«6Z6> says that it 

 resembles that of a Monocotyledon, consistiufj- of soft cellular tissue studded with 

 scattere<l small patches of porebeariiifif wood. Bra)i(fig says that the fruit is 3" 

 long, but mine ajipears to be (jiiite ripe with i)erfcct seeds. Clarke f^nyt^ {F.B.I.) 

 that it is unknown. 



2. PLUMBAGO, L. 



Herbs, underslirubs or shrubs with diffuse or sarmentose branches 

 and entire leaves. Flowers spicate. Calyx tubular covered with stalked 



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