Plumbago.'] Lxxxvi. plumbaqine^. (C. B. Clarke.) 481 



Rambling several feet. Leaves 3 by 1 J in., acute, glabrous, or puberulous ; petiole 

 J in., base dilated, amplexioaul. Spikes 4-1-2 in., often branched ; bracts J in, ovate, 

 acute. CeUyx |-4 by ^ in. ; teeth very short. Corolla-tiibe | in. ; lobes j in. 



2. P. rosea, Lirm. ; Soxb. Fl. Ind. i. 462 ; leaves elliptic tapering to 

 the short petiole, rachis of the spike glabrous, corolla red, base of style hairy. 

 Wall. Cat. 7242 ; Bot. Mag. tt. 230, 6.363; Kurx in Joum. As. Soo. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 218. P. coccinea, Soiss. in JDC. Proclr. xii. 693. Thela coccinea. 

 Lour. Fl. Cockinch. 119. — Humph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 168. Mheede Hort. 

 Mai. X. t 9. 



Valleys in Sikkim and Khasia., wild (?). India, often cultivated; Thwaites 

 thinks not wild in Ceylon; Kurz thinks not wild in Birjna.^DisTEiB. South-east 

 Asia, cultivated. 



Altogether resembling P. zeylamca, and perhaps only a cultivated variety of it. 



6. CERATOSTIGSXA, Bimge. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, bristle-ciliate. 

 Flowers capitate; bracts and bracteoles Sheathing. Calyx tubular, vrithout 

 glands, deeply 5-fid ; segments narrow, 3-striate. Corolla-tube elongate, slender ; 

 lobes round, patent. Stamens adnata to the middle of the coroUa-tube, fila- 

 ments linear; anthers oblong. Ovary pentagonal; tip conical; style filiform, 

 with 5 stigmatose branches. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss close to 

 the base, sub-5-valved.^ — Species 3-4; Chinese, Bhotanese and Abyssinian. 



C. Griffitbil, Clarke; shrubby, ferruginous-hirsute, leaves spathulate 

 obovate, calyx-segments linear. Plumbago ?, Orif. Itin. ^otes, 189, n. 1007. 



Bhotan ; between Woollookka and Laninpo veiy common, Griffith (alt. 8000 ft. ?), 

 (Kew Distrib. u. 4181). 



A low densely branched shrub; leaves red-margined, calyces and bracts brown- 

 ciliate; flowprs.a fine blue (Griffith). — GriiBth's specimen has been, badly preserved ; 

 the leaves on it are f by ^ in. ; but it had probably much larger leaves. 



6. VOG-EXiXA, Lamk. 



Small shrubs, tranches long. Leaves alternate, entire. Spikes terminal, 

 panicled ; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx deeply 5-fid, with 6 broad trans- 

 versely undiUate wings between the ribs. CordJla-tube cyUndric ; lobes 5, round, 

 patent. Stamens free; filaments linear, base dilated; anthers oblong. .0vary 

 oblong-fusiform, somewhat pentagonal; style filiform, branches 5, stigmatose 

 throughout. Capsule included in the calyx, circumsciss at the very base. — 

 Species 2, a S. African and an Indo-Arabian. 



V. Indlca, Gibe. ms. ; Wight in Cdc. Jovjrn. Nat. Hist. vii. 17, and Ic. 

 1075 ; leaves perfoliate elliptic obtuse or orbicular. DC. Prodr. xii. 696 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 876. V. arabica, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 696 ; Dah. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 220. 



■Western India ; Canara, Gibson, &o. ; Mt. Aboo, Stocks, Brandis. — Distbib. 

 Arabia. 



Puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 2^ by If m. (sometimes twice as large), deeply 

 cordate, more or less perfoliate. Spikes dense. Cah/x ^ by ^ in. Corolla-tube 

 I in. ; lobes ^ in. Style hairy at the base. 



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