Plumbago indica L.

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18661* Plumbago VMM linn* A smooth suffruteseont
in compact humus covered soil among a bamboo olurap
ft a lightly weeded stream bank at 50 feat altitude; stems
few to several from the yellowish half woody root or ground
Stem, t#rot% smooth* green* 1/6 inch thick* branched all
«long* »Mllping and recurved, forming thin but interlaced
-masses; leaves horizontal or descending* suhmambranous*
scattered* those along the Slender germinal branehlot»
Moh reduced* eubmembranous* flat, 'dark green above* Alar
SMe&ths inflorescence slenderly branched* drooping, the
epical flower hearing portion sub erect or beriseats!* the
rsohis and flowering bracts greenish* 'calyx dark green;'
corolla bright deep red* delicate; filaments whitish and
timgod with red; ovary green* style and stigma white, the
pattet several dissected; calyx on the outside densely
provided with tackeshaped glands * AfMtiCigcu;al Brooks
feint* february* 1911*
ELMER’S FIELD
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