Plumbago. 1 ] ixxxvi. PLUMBAGINEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 481 



Kambling several feet. Leaves 3 by l in., acute, glabrous, or puberulous ; petiole 

 in., base dilated, amplexicaul. Spikes 4-12 in., often branched ; bracts i in, ovate, 

 acute. Calyx |- by ^ in. ; teeth very short. Corolla-tube f in. ; lobes |- in. 



2. P. rosea, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 462 ; leaves elliptic tapering to 

 the short petiole; raclris of the spike glabrous, corolla red, base of style hairy. 

 Wall. Cat. 7242 ; Bot. Mag. tt. 230, 5363; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 218. P. coccinea, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 693. Thela coccinea, 

 Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ll$.Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 168. Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. x. t 9. 



Valleys in SIKKIM and KHASIA, wild (?). India, often cultivated ; Thwaites 

 thinks not wild in Ceylon ; Kurz thinks not wild in Birma. DISTJRIB. South-east 

 Asia, cultivated. 



Altogether resembling P. zeylanlca, and perhaps only a cultivated variety of it. 



5. CERATOSTIG1VIA, Bunge. 



Herts or shrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, bristle-ciliate. 

 Flowers capitate; bracts and bracteoles sheathing. Calyx tubular, without 

 glands, deeply 5-fid ; segments narrow, 3-striate. Corolla-tube elongate, slender ; 

 lobes round, patent. Stamens adnate to the middle of the corolla-tube, fila- 

 ments linear; anthers oblong. Ovary pentagonal; tip conical; style filiform, 

 with 5 stigmatose branches. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss close to 

 the base, sub-5-valved. Species 3-4 ; Chinese, Bhotanese and Abyssinian. 



C. G-riffitliii, Clarke; shrubby, ferruginous-hirsute, leaves spathulate 

 obovate, calyx-segments linear. Plumbago ?, Griff. Itin. Aotes, 189, n. 1007. 



BHUTAN ; between Woollookka and Lamnoo very common, Griffith (alt. 8000 ft. ?), 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 4181). 



A low densely branched shrub ; leaves red-margined, calyces and bracts brown- 

 ciliate ; flowers a fine blue (Griffith). Griffith's specimen has been badly preserved ; 

 the leaves on it are f by 5 in. ; but it had probably much larger leaves. 



6. VOGELIA, Lamk. 



Small shrubs, branches long. Leaves alternate, entire. Spikes terminal, 

 panicled; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx deeply 5-fid, with 5 broad trans- 

 versely undulate wings between the ribs. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lobes 5, round, 

 patent. Stamens free ; filaments linear, base dilated ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 oblong-fusiform, somewhat pentagonal; style filiform, branches 5, stigmatose 

 throughout. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss at the very base. 

 Species 2, a S. African and an Indo-Arabian. 



V. indica, Gibs. ms. ; Wight in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 17, and Ic. 

 1075; leaves perfoliate elliptic obtuse or orbicular. DC. Prodr. xii. 696; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 876. V. arabica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 696 j Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 220. 



WESTERN INDIA. ; Canara, Gibson, &c. ; Mt. Aboo, Stocks, Brandts. DISTRIB. 

 Arabia. 



Puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 2^ by If in. (sometimes twice as large), deeply 

 cordate, more or less perfoliate. Spikes dense. Calyx ^ by in. Corolla-tube 

 in. ; lobes ^ in. Style hairy at the base. 



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