Plocama
(from plokamos, bent hairs; alluding to the pendulous branches). SYNS. Bartlingia, Placodium, Placoma. ORD. Rubiaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse, erect shrub, with very slender, pendulous branches. A compost of loam and peat is most suitable for its culture. It may be increased readily by cuttings, which will root in sand, under a glass. P. pendula (pendulous-branched). fl. white, minute, axillary and terminal; calyx with a globose tube, and a five-toothed, persistent limb; corolla infundibular-campanulate, with a short tube and a limb of five to seven oblong-lanceolate, valvate lobes. l. opposite, or in whorls of four, linear-oblong, filiform, acute, flaccid; stipules connate with the petioles. h. 2ft. Canary Islands, 1772.