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Plumbago (from Latin for lead, from the lead- colored flowers of some species, or because of some old tradition). Plumbaginaceae. Leadwort. Subshrubs or herbs, often cultivated, particularly under glass, for the handsome phlox-like flowers.
Mostly perennial, sometimes climbing, often more or less woody: lvs. usually alternate and entire, clasping (or auricled) by the blade or by base of petiole: fls.
spicate or racemose on the ends of the branches, blue, violet, red, or white, gamopetalous, salverform, the tube usually slender; calyx tubular, 5-toothed, and somewhat angled, glandular; stamens usually 5. free from the corolla-tube, the filaments mostly with a dilated base; ovary attenuated at the top, the single style with
5 stigmas: fr. a membranaceous 5-valved caps.— About 10 or a dozen species in- habiting warm countries, chiefly of Eu., Asia, and Afr. For P. Larpentae, consult Ceratostigma.
Two species of shrubby plumbagos, P. capensis and P. rosea, are deservedly well known. In the middle and northern states they are treated as greenhouse pot-plants and are usually turned out to flower in summer. They are readily prop, by cuttings taken either in autumn from plants growing in the open or in the spring from stock plants. They require an intermediate temperature.
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