Plumbago. | PRIMULACEM. 639 
undribuns. 
A glabrous shrub of mangrove-swamps, with bro 
coriaceous leaves, and a stem-clasping, dilated sites 
513. Plumbago Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, diffusely branching; leaves alternate, 
entire. Flowers spicate; bracts and 2 bracteoles short. Sepals 
connate in a tubular calyx, covered with stalked glands ; limb 5-fid. 
Petals 5, connate in a long, slender, tubular corolla ; lobes round, 
ent. Stamens 5, free; filaments linear, dilated at the base ; 
anthers oblong. Carpels connate in an ovary, narrowed at the 
base; style slender, with terminal branches, stigmatic nearly 
throughout their length. Fruit a membranous capsule, cireum- 
scissile near the base. Seed solitary; albumen scanty 
Leaves ovate, suddenly narrowed into the "petiole; rachis of spike 
pubescent or glandular ; corolla white ; base of style glabrous.. .zeylanica, 
Leaves elliptic, tapering to the short petiole; rachis of spike rere: ; 
corolla red ; base of style hairy 
1147, PuumpaGgo ZEYLANICA Linn.; F. I. i. 462; F. B. I. iii, 480; 
E. D. P. 986. 
By most of the provinces, as if wild; but usually culti- 
oe veuias herb. Vernac. Chita, chitra. 
1148, Eel Bona Linn: P14. 40a; & beth aes 
979. 
Cultivated in all the provinces; as if wild only in 
Chittagong. 
A rambling herb. Vernac. Lal-chita, rakto- chitra. 
Order LXXVI. PRIMULACEZ. 
Perennial, rarely annual —_— Leaves all radical, or, if cauline, 
0. Flowers hermaphro- 
0. 
rarely superior. Petals connate in a 
5-, rarely 4-9-cleft calyx, 
hy campanulate or funnel- 
ypogynous, very rarely superior, rotate, 
