396 
grow without difficulty with shading when transplanting - 
(Parsons, l.c.). Cabbage and eae a Sed s ips White ” ar re 
recom 
** Bun nching, im Grip” “Cos” and ** Lobed-leave 
** Lactuca sativa, ” in Gardening for taf. — 
p- 164 1874).——“ Lactucarium," i Pharmacographia, 
Flückiger and Hanbury, pp. aE a (Macmillan and Co., London, 
1879).— —'' Lactuca sativa: Garden Lettuce,” in Med. Pi. Bentley 
and Trimen, No. 161, 5 pages (Churchill; Ser 1880). 
Lactuca Sala. var. sativa, in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, 
iv. 1890, pp. 578-579. American Varieties of Lettuce, Tracey, 
u.s. Dept. Agric. Bureau of Pl. Industry, Bull. No. 69, 1904, 
pp- 1-108, Plates, i.-xxvii *Laitue Cultivée, Lactuca 
sativa," in Les PI. Potageres, Vilmorin-Andrieux, pp. 349-388 
; — in 
Halstead, in Trop. Agric. xxx. March 1908, pp. 211-213; from 
Estacion Central Agronémica de Cuba, Bull. No. 8, Sept. 1907, 
—‘‘Lettuce Cultivation in Agric. News, Ba rbados, vii. 1908, 
. 319. ** Lettuce,” in Ms etable Growing in Cuba, "Austin and 
Hals stead, Estación Cen af Agronómica de Cuba (English 
Edition), Bull. No. 13, dune 1908, pp. 38, 40. 
PLUMBAGINACEAE. 
PrvMB2aco, Linn. 
Plumbago zeylanica, Linn.; Fl. Ee Afr. III. p. 486. 
Ill. — Rheede, Hort. Mal. 8; Trew. Pl. Rer t. s P eis 
FI. Ital. in. t. 108 (P. pen Dra apiez, Herb. de 
rare ii. t. 31 (P. auriculata) ; Bot. Reg. (1846), t. 23; "Wight. 
Illus 179. 
Vernac. names.—Inobiri (Lagos, Dawodu); Cadinga puna 
(Angola, , Welwitsch) Chitra or Chita (Bengal, Moloney). —Ceylon 
Dalziel, No. 315, 1907, Herb. Kew), and widely 
spread in Tropical Airis, dia Australia, etc. 
The root is acrid and stimulating, bruised and mixed with a 
little bland oil it is used in India as an external application for 
rheumatism and paralytic affections, ete. (Dict. Econ. Prod. 
India); medicinal P root used as a caustie, Angola (Hiern, 
Cat. ab i Pl. iii. p. 635); a tincture of the root bark has 
been employed as an sit odriddie in the treatment of intermit- 
tents, "e ante fic (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 377). 
Subseandent, easily cultivated, found in the bush, Katagum 
Pags” ee Kew), by fences, Loanda (Hiern, 1.c.); an under- 
shrub t., Golungo Alto. 
Ref.— pha mbago zeylanica,” in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, 
Watt, vi. la, 1892, pp. 295-296. 
