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divaricato-ramosi ; erecti, patuli vel rarissime scandentes ; glabri, 
villosi vel strigosi. Folia alterna, margine sepissime setoso-ciliata. 
Flores bracteati bracted concava, et 2-bracteolati bracteolis laterali- 
bus, carinato-plicatis, bracteas fere sequantibus, in capitula termi- 
nalia vel axillaria bracteis paucis brevioribus vacuis cincta congesti. 
rarer 7-8, 2-8 Africane ; ceters Himalaice, Tibetice, Sinenses 
vel Indo-sinenses. 
Innovationes e st etre crs reienices iat alabastra 
esquam capitula inalia et axillar 
Folia <oe “ciliato. oration “atest ntringue shat 
0; plumbaginoides. 
Folia utrinque see vel scabrida . . ~ C. asperrimum. 
Innovationes e ramis demum lignose, persistentes ; alabastra 
' i rerapees diu apud innovationis basem persistenti- 
bus induta : 
Squame alabastra obtegentes vel innovationum basi- 
ite numerose aciculares, fere pungentes ; 
folia wiring glabra ; capitula terminalia; cor- 
x fissilis nit tex intricate ramosus ulisinti 
sidkisien — egentes vel innovationum ates obsitee 
pau i eles cortex haud fissus :— 
Hretiser erecti ; capitula terminalia et axillaria :— 
Folia supra glabra vel nervis tantum plus minus 
Sent subtus ramulisque sparse 
C. minus. 
Folia. utrinque yamulisque dense patente favo 
C. Griffithii. 
Frutices patuli vel scandentes ; folia utrinque dandiiegt sparse 
adpresse setosa :— 
Capitula terminalia et axillaria ; bractez, tae 
ole ca “es sque lobi vix pungente s; frute 
6. C. abyssinicum. 
Capitale: terminalia ; ‘bractes, bracteole calycis- 
que lobi pung entes ; frutex scandens ae C. speciosum. 
1, CERaTosTigMa pLUMBAGINoIDES Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin. 55 
(1834); Hemsl. in Soeee . Linn. Soe. xxvi. ” 86 (1889), loc. 
“Yunnan” exclud 
Plumbago Larpente lina @ d. Chron. vii. 782 cum ic. (1847) ; 
fohl & Schlecht. Bot. “Fait vi. 160 (1848) ; Lem. Flor. des 
Serres, iv. t. 807 (1848) ; Boiss. in DO. Prod. “ = (1848). 
ibe me plumbaginoides Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii 5 (1848); 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4487 (1850) ; Maxim. Ind. "Pek. in Prim. 
low. ‘Amur. 4 476 (1859). 
8 foot prope Pekin, Bunge! Shanghai, Fortune, 88! Chusan, 
‘antor 
2. Ceratostigma asperrimum Stapf MSS. in Herb. Kew. 
Frutec humilis ramis sparse foliatis, ramulis angulatis parce ad- 
presse puberulis. Innovationes basi co ae foliola 2-8 asalis 
oliis multo minora circumambitu iis similia. Folia obovato- 
spathulata, alterna, basi longe et proce cuneata, apice obtusa, 
