286 PLUMBAGINACEAE. [Plumbago. 
We have iy tig our plant according be the w — opinion of the authors of the Genera 
Plant. It has to be remarked, however, that to Lubinia are attributed a salver-shaped 
corolla, with sind adnate to the middie of the pa and axillary flowers, to Lysimachia 
lineariloba linear obtuse corolla-lobes. Keeled sepals are not sentaional in ‘the deseription 
of either of those species. 
Orver LI. PLUMBAGINACEAE. | 
Calyx tubular, plaited, often enlarged and scarious or petal-like at the 
top, persistent. Corolla gamopetalous with a narrow angular tube, or of 
tals with long narrow claws. Stamens 5, opposite the petals 
or lobes of the corolla, SRR or hypogynous. Ovary superior, of . 
5 valvate carpels, I-celled, with ended ov er Styles 5, distinct, or 
united at the base. Fruit an Esdahiedint utricle or irregularly opening 
ar oa Seed albuminous. Embryo axile, straight; radicle superior. o 
Small shrubs or herbaceous plants with alternate oat leaves. No sti 
pules. anita in terminal heads, spikes or panicle 
A small Order extending over the greater part of the world. 
1. PLUMBAGO, Tourn. 
Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, herbaceous, covered with stipitate 
glands. Corolla m eee salver-shaped, the tube longer than the 
calyx, the limb 5-lobed with lobes convolute in the bud. Stamens hypo 
nous, rising from a lobed disk. ag ith 5 filiform branches. Utricle 
membranous, torn at the base. — Shrubs or perennial herbs. Flowers 
in = terminal spikes, tri-bracteate. 
A small genus, distributed over sore editerranean countries, South Africa, Asia and 
: Pentreegg In cultivation: P. Cape » P. coccinea, P. coerulea 
. Zeylanica, L. — ees in DC. Prod. ‘XU, 692. — A low 
kbesagiiing shrub with grooved branches. Leaves thin, glabrate, ovate © 
short (2—4”) clasping and auriculate petioles. Spikes 3—4’, loose}y 
flowered, glandular-viscid. Bracts ovate-acuminate, !/s as long as the 
calyx, the lowest one largest. Calyx 4—5”, with several rows of 
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twice as long as the calyx, the lobes ovate, ergs acuminate. Utricle 
elongate, attenuate at both ends, 5-grooved at the 
Common in the lower plains and lava e. Nat. a — The acrid juice 
of the plant is considered poisonous, and used to be caeioved like that of Styrene 
acre for black tattooing. — The species exten from the W. coast of tropical Afric 
through India and Australia into P. olynesi: 
Orper LI. GENTIANACEAE. 
Sepals 4 or 5, rarely more, usually united into a lobed or toothed caly*- 
Corolla usually regular, with as many lobes as sepals, contortion in. 
