PLOMBAGINACÉES. 363 
GENERA 
I. PLUMBAGEÆ. 
1. Plumbago T. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares ; receptaculo 
convexiusculo. Calyx tubulosus, plus minus alte 5-fidus, extus 
Capitato-glandulosus v. rarius (Ceratostigma) eglandulosus, inter 
COStas Crassas v. ad margines anguste hyalinus, valvatus v. leviter 
reduplicatus. Corollæ hypocraterimorphæ tubus sæpe elongatus ; 
hmbi brevis v. lati lobis 5, æqualibus v. subinæqualibus, tortis, 
demum patentibus. Stamina 5, oppositipetala; filamentis ima basi 
glanduloso-incrassatis ibique cum ima corolla v. et inter se connatis, 
Cæterum liberis; antheris introrsis, 2-rimosis. Germen liberum, 
1-loculare; stylo terminali gracili, apice in ramos 5, dense papilloso- 
Stigmatosos alternipetalos, diviso. Ovulum 4, e summa placenta 
central gracili apiceque reflexa pendulum; micropyle supera, obtu- 
ralore apicali obtecta. Fructus membranaceus, demum a basi circeum- 
CISSUS, sæpe in valvas 5 a basi fissilis. Semen 1, summæ placentæ 
appensum ; albumine parco v. crasso; embryonis axilis æqualis 
radicula supera. — Herbæ annuæ v. sæpius perennes, nunc frutes- 
centes; ramis virgatis v. sarmentosis; foliis alternis, petiolatis v. 
basi auriculato-amplexicaulibus, nunc ad squamas parvas reductis ; 
floribus in spicas terminales elongatas v. rarius breviores terminales 
axillaresque dispositis, bracteatis et bracteolatis. (Orbis utriusq. reg. 
calid. et temp.) — Vid. p. 354. 
2. Vogelia Lamk!. — Flores fere Plumbaginis; sepalis 5, rigide 
Subulatis, utrinque late marginato-alatis ; alis hyalino-membranaceis 
LIU, A1, 447, € 149. — Enoz., Gen,  B.M., Gen. I, 628, n. 8. — Maury, loc. cil., 
n. 2176. — Boiss., in DC. Prodr., XA, 696. — 122. — Pax, Loc. cit., 122. 
