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PLOMBAGINACÉES. 363GENERAI. PLUMBAGEvE.1. Plumbago T. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares ; receptaculoconvexiusculo. Galyx tubulosus, plus minus alte 5-fidus, extuscapitato-glandulosus v. rarius (Ceratosligma) eglandulosus, intercostas crassas v. ad margines anguste hyalinus, valvatus v. leviterreduplicatus. Gorolla3 hypocraterimorphae tubus saepe elongatus ;limbi brevis v. lati lobis 5, aequalibus v. subinaequalibus, tortis,demum patentibus. Stamina 5, oppositipetala; filamentis ima basiglanduloso-incrassatis ibique cum ima corolla v. et inter se connatis,caeterum liberis; antheris introrsis, 2-rimosis. Germen liberum,1-loculare; stylo terminali gracili, apice in ramos 5, dense papillosostigmatososalternipetalos, diviso. Ovulum 1, e summa placentacentrali gracili apiceque reflexa pendulum; micropyle supera, obturatoreapicali obtecta. Fructus membranaceus, demum abasicircumcissus,saepe in valvas 5 a basi fissilis. Semen 1, summae placentaeappensum ; albumine parco v. crasso; embryonis axilis aequalisradicula supera. — Herbae annuae v. saepius perennes, nunc frutescentes;ramis virgatis v. sarmentosis; foliis alternis, petiolatis v.basi auriculato-amplexicaulibus, nunc ad squamas parvas reductis;floribus in spicas terminales elongatas v. rarius breviores terminalesaxillaresque dispositis, bracteatis et bracteolatis. (Orbis utriusq. reg.calid. et temp.) — Vid. p. 354.2. Vogclia LAMK 1 —Flores fere Plumbaginis; sepalis 5, rigidesubulatis, utrinque late marginato-alatis ; alis hyalino-membranaceis1. Ill, II, 147, t. 149. — ENDL.. Gen., B. IL, Gen., Il, 628, n. 8. — MAURY, loc. cit.,n. 2176. — Boiss., in DC. Prodr., XII, 696. — 122. — PAX, loc. cit., 122.