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slightly cohering at base. Stamens adhering to the base of the petals. 
Ovary 1-celled ; styles free, stigmas capitate. Fruit a capsule, linear, 
long-exserted from the calyx, pentagonal, 1-seeded. — Distrib. Species 
2, one Indian the other Australian. 
iEGiALiTis rotundifolia, Roxb. FI. Ind. II. Ill, A simple- 
stemmed, soft-wooded shrub, 3 to 8 feet high ; stem about 3 in. in 
diam., conical in shape. Leaves alternate, orbicular, very slightly acute 
at apex, rounded or slightly cordate at base, diam. 2 to 3 in., entire, 
glabrous, coriaceous, minutely glandular-dotted, shining above, dull 
beneath ; midrib thick and prominent, veins at an angle of 60 degrees 
with the midrib, closely reticulate ; petiole very stout, 2 to 3 in. long, 
prominently winged, the wings sheathing, amplexicaul, leaving annular 
scars when they fall. Inflorescence of axillary or terminal panicled 
racemes; flowers pale yellow, nearly sessile, enclosed in sheathing 
bracts ; bract 1, - 3 to - 4 in. long, concave, obtuse, enclosing the two 
similar but smaller bracteoles. Calyx cylindric, furrowed, - 2 to "3 in. 
long ; teeth 5, short. Corolla slightly longer than calyx ; lobes 5, 
narrow. Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla ; filaments 
shorter than corolla-tube ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 1-celled, 
styles free, stigma capitate, ovule 1 pendulous. Wall. Cat. 7240 ; Griff. 
Notul. IV. 207 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 479 ; Prain Beng. 
Plants I. 638. MS. annulata var. rotundifolia, DC. Prod. XII. 621. 
MS. annulata, Ivurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 217 ; For. FI. II. 
96 (not of B. Br.). MSgianilites rotundifolia, Presl. Bot. Bemerk. 103. 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 4156. — Distrib. Coasts of Bengal and 
Burma and the Andaman Islands, in mangrove swamps. 
2. Plumbago, Linn. 
Perennial herbs or undershrubs, rarely annual, branches usually 
straggling or sub-scandent. Leaves, if present, alternate, entire, the 
petioles usually amplexicaul, auriculate at base. Flowers in terminal 
spikes or spicate racemes, forming sometimes a leafy terminal panicle ; 
bract 1, bracteoles 2, usually small. Calyx tubular, glandular, 5-fid, 
the teeth erect. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube slender, lobes spreading. 
Stamens free; filaments filiform, inserted on hypogynous glands; anthers 
oblong, dorsifixed, usually exsert. Ovary attenuate at apex; style 
slender, divided into stigmatose branches ; ovule 1, pendulous from a 
basal ascending funicle. Fruit a capsule, included in the persistent 
calyx and corolla, eircumsciss near the base, hardened above ; seed 
solitary, albumen very small, embryo slender, radicle superior, coty- 
ledons oblong. — Distrib. About 10 species, found in the warm regions 
of both hemispheres. 
