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PLUMBAGO capensis. — 
Cape Lead-wort. | 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. PuumBacines. Jussieu gen. 92. 
PruMBaGinek. Brown prod. 1. 425. 
PLUMBAGO. Cal. tubulosus, plicatus, 5-dentatus, persistens. Cor. 
monopetala, hypocrateriformis, limbo 5-partito. Stamina hypogyna. Sty- 
lus filiformis: stigmata 5, acuta. (Germ. 1, liberum, monospermum, ovulo 
inverso ab apice funiculi 6 fundo germinis orti.) Caps. valvata: sem. albu- 
minosum: .(inversum: integumento simplici: embryo erectus: radicula su- 
pera). Herbe v. Suffrutices caulescentes. Folia amplexicaulia. Spice ter- 
minales. Flores 3-bracteati. Brown prod. 1. 425. 
1, eepetats foliis petiolatis oblongis integris subtts glaucis, caule erecto. 
. Thunb. prod. 33. 
Plumbago capensis. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 837. Thunb. fl. cap. 2.13. Loddiges’s 
bot. cab. n. 295. 
Frutescens, ascendens, 1-2-pedalis v. ultra. Rami foliis axillares, flexuosi, 
varicoso-nervosi, virentes, distantér foliosi, atomis opaco-crystallizatis irrorati, 
superneé levissime pubescentes ceterum glabri: fol. sparsa, patentia, internodiis 
longiora, Pepe plus minus 2-3-uncialia, transverse subduplo-angustiora, ob- 
longa, subrhombeo-ovata, apice rotundatis, petiolum versis cuneata, more ramo- 
rum atomis exsudatis conspersa: petiolus marginatus: stipule (rectizs forsan 
petiolorum auricule?) gemine, perfoliato-opposite, herbacee, reticulato- 
venosce, patentissime, subsemiorbiculato-oblate, repande, plurimim breviores 
petiolo, cujus margine continue. Spice multiftore, erecta, conferte, fasti- 
giate, breves: flores albo-cerulescentes, hypocrateriformes, subbiunciales, ad- 
scendentes: pedunculi ]-flori, brevissimi v. subnulli: bractes terne, herbaceo- 
rubescentes, lineari-acuminate, recurve duplo v. ultra breviores calyce. Cal. 
viridis, rubore passim suffusus, duplo brevior tubo corolla, 5-gono-tubulosus, 
plicis 5 pallidtoribus striatus, setis carnosis viscoso-capitalis patentissimis 
atrorubentibus echinatus. if 
Cor. tubus gracilis, lineari-clavatus, 5-gonus, bis 
terve longior laciniis; limbus saturatits 5-radiatus, laciniis cuneato-obovatis 
contiguis. Stam. & pist. egualia tubo: fil. alba, filo serico simplict via cras- 
stora; anth. violacea, intrors@, sagittato-lineares, erecta. Germ. subrotun- 
dum glabrum. 
The species is not found in the Hortus Kewensis, though 
cultivated in the Kew Collection many years back. It seems 
however to haye been confounded in that garden with tristis, 
for we find a sample that had flowered there, matched in the 
- Banksian Herbarium with a spontaneous one of PLumBaco 
tristis, a very distinct species, and known only by the 
sample collected at the Cape by the late Mr. Francis Mas- 
son. 
