1 68 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



sessile, linear oblong, flowers green with pink marks, stigma long, 

 green, 2-lobed. A native of China, but now common in gardens (>.) 

 The small blue lobelia used for edgings in English gardens is L. 

 ceelestis. 



2. WAHLENBERGIA. 



IF. gracilis (W. agrestis, D.). Nearly all smooth, leaves 

 narrow linear with waved margins nearly entire, flowers white 

 or blue, sometimes tubular, calyx lobes erect, very narrow, 

 bracts about half as long as the pedicels, capsule ovoid. 



Matheran, Mahableshwar, Konkan. Throughout India, a common 

 weed (#".) This is in all respects an ordinary-looking plant, and 

 has no apparent claim to its specific name. 



Cephalostigma. Corolla deeply lobed, capsule within the persistent 

 calyx teeth- *0. schimperi (0. hirsutum, D.), a small rigid erecfc 

 plant, branched at the top, hairy, leaves lanceolate, crisped, flowers 

 bluish, in racemes, capsule roundish, and *C. flexuosum very similar, 

 but with ascending instead of horizontal branches and pedicels 

 longer. The Konkans (D.}. Sphenoclea, flowers in dense bracted 

 spikes, stigma 2-lobed. *S. zey'anica, a herb, leaves narrowed at 

 both ends, flowers small, white, with bracts, capsule top-shaped, 

 angled, circumsciss. Not in D. Rice-fields (G.). Swamps through- 

 out India (#.). 



OEDER 67. PLUMBAGINE^l. 



Herbs or undershrubs, flowers regular, bracted, calyx inferior 

 tubular, 5 to 10 ribbed, stamens 5, anthers oblong, styles 5, 

 capsule membranous, included in calyx. 



This order includes Statice, Sea-lavender, and Armeria, thrift, well- 

 known in English gardens. 



PLUMBAGO. Flowers in spikes, calyx covered with stalked 

 glands, corolla tube long and slender, capsule circumsciss near 

 the base. 



P. zeylanica. A straggling climber, leaves ovate, suddenly 

 narrowing, flowers white, spikes glandular, hairy and sticky, 

 bracts 3. Cliitrak. 



Guzerat, common in hedges, less so in the Konkan. The floweri 

 are sometimes umbellate. 



P. rosea (P. coccinea, D.) Idlchitrak, flowers red, leaves more tapering 

 is perhaps only a cultivated variety (#.), but I have seen it apparently 

 wild. P. capensis, udichitrak, kdla chitralr, with flowers of a peculiar 

 and beautiful blue, is one of the commonest garden climbers in 

 W. India, and well-known in English conservatories. 



Vogelia, small shrubs, calyx 5-winged, capsule circumsciss at the 

 very base. * V. Indica (V. arabica, D.) whitish, leaves ovate to 



