638 BENGAL PLANTS. { Aigialitis. 
Order LXXY. PLUMBAGINEA. 
erbs, undershrubs, or shrubs. Leaves rosulate or alternate, 
way sometimes dilated and stem-clasping below. Flowers her- 
maphrodite, regular, in terminal scapes or peduncles, capitate, 
race a 
sheathing the flowers; bracteoles 2. Sepals connate in an in- 
ferior, tubular, 5-10-ribbed calyx, often hyaline between the ribs ; 
limb frequently funnel-shaped, scarious. Petals 5, free, or connate 
the base in a short tube to which the filaments are adnate, 
rarely connate in a linear tube; lobes imbricate, spreading. 
Stamens 5, opposite the petals; filaments adnate below to the 
corolla, or nearly free ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; cells parallel ; 
dublado longitudinal. Disk 0. Carpels connate in a superior 
1-celled ovary, 5-angled above; ovule solitary, anatropous, sees 
apita: 
coriaceous capsule, siiladed in the calyx or exserted; circum- 
scissile or rupturing near the thin base, the hardened apex pe 
5-valved. Seed cylindric, pendulous; albumen floury or 0; 
embryo straight. 
Styles 5, distinct; stigmas subcapitate ; — shortly united at the 
base into a tube with the corolla ; a large shrub alitis. 
Style 1, filiform, divided into 5 dates branches; stamens free; 
herbs or undershrubs Plumbago- 
wees a eee eee eannee 
512. Aigialitis R. Br. 
A glabrous shrub; leaves alternate, broad, coriaceous ; petiole 
dilated at the base, stem-clasping. Pon’ in panicled racemes ; 
bract sheathing the pedicel and enclosing the two bracteoles. 
Sepals connate in a tubular, coriaceous, 5-ribbed calyx; lim 
shortly 5-toothed. Petals linear, white, connate below, and there 
te to filaments, in a persistent tube, ae above the tube- 
Stamens 5; anthers oblong. Carpels connate in a superior 
1-celled ovary; styles 5, distinct, pojsting from the angles of 
ovary; stigmas capitate. Fruit a linear, exserted capsule, 
dehiscing along the angles. Seed naa eee Sage 0. 
1146, Aleraurris cena Roxb. ; F. I. . EBL 
ili. 479; E. D. A, 
