Plantago. | CII, PLANTAGINEZ (BAKER), 305 
stem, narrowly linear. Heads many to a stem, globose, on ascending 
peduncles ; bracts ovate, the lower very acute, longer than the calyx. 
Sepals oblong, $ in. long. Calyx-lobes very small, ovate. Stamens 
short. Capsule 2-seeded.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 3896; 
Schweinf. Beitr, Fl. Aethiop. 164. P. rugosa, Hochst. ex Decne. in DC. 
Prod. xiii. 735. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast-land to between 3000 and 4000 ft., about 21° N. lat., 
Bent ! between Atbara and the Red Sea, Schweinfurth, 1844! Abyssinia : Tigre ; 
near Adowa, Schimper, 60! Abba Gerima, near Adowa, Schimper, 76; Samen ; 
Debra Eski, 9700 ft., Schimper, 87 ; Lotho, 8400 ft., Schimper, 414. 
Also in the Orient and North Africa. Scarcely more than a variety of P. Psyllium. 
