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Near allied to H. Javanicum, from which it differs in its perfectly 

 glabrous style and ovary and somewhat different nervation (the lateral 

 nerves arising almost rectangularly from the midrib). 



FFAGHIBUM. 

 Leucopogon, R. Br. 



1. L. Malatanus, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. No. 2 and in Hook. Bot. 

 Misc. II. 71 ; Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 301 ; DC. Prod. VII. 744. 



Var. a. genuifa, leaves larger and broader, 1| to 2 in. long, acute 

 and mucronate ; spikes about \ in. long. 



Yar. y8. Moluccanus, (L. Mohtccanus, Scheff. Obs. phytog. 97). 

 leaves |- to an in. long, 1^ to 2\ lin. broad, subulate -pointed ; spikes only 

 li — 2 lin. long. 



Hab. Var. a. Burma, probably Tenasserim (Griff. 3453/1) ; var, /3. 

 Tenasserim (Helf. 3453). 



PLUMBAGINE^. 



Conspectus of Genera. 



Trih. 1. STATICE^. Styles entirely, or at least at the summit free. Fruit an 

 utricle bursting at the base or circumsciss at the top. 



^GiALiTis. Styles glabrous, free ; stigmas capitate. Petals coriaceous, jointed 

 beyond the connate base ; fruit elongate, exserted ; albumen none. Treelets. 



Trib. 2. PLUMB AGE^. Styles entu'ely connate. Pericarp more or less de- 

 hiscing into 2 valves. 



Plumbago. Calyx ^landular-mui-icato. Fruit included in the calyx. Herbs. 



-2Ejgialitis, R. Br. 



1. M. ANFULATA, E. Br. Prod. Nov. Holl. I. 426 ; DC. Prod. XII. 

 621. {^g. rotundifolia, Eoxb. PL Ind. II. Ill j Griff. Not. Dicot. 207. t. 

 461. f. 2). 



Hab. Frequent in the littoral forests all along the shores from Chit- 

 tagong down to Tenasserim and the Andamans. — Fl. Fr. CS. 



Plumbago, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Spikes glandular-pubescent ; corolla white ; bract ovate, leafy ; bractlets subulate, 



. .P. Zeylanica. 

 Spikes glabrous or nearly so; corolla rose-coloured or scarlet; bract ovate-oblong, 



scarious, brown ; bractlets conform with the bracts, F. rosea. 



1. P. Zeylanioa, L. sp. pi. 215 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 463 ; DC. Prod. 

 XII. 692. 



Hab. In rubbishy places in and around villages, along river-banks and 

 in toungyas, not unfrequent all over Burma, but apparently nowhere really 

 wild.— Fl. Fr. oo . 

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