706 CXII. PLANTAGINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Plantago. 
** Corolla glabrous. Capsule 2-celled, cells 1-2-seeded. 
2. P. lanceolata, Linn.; perennial, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate 
entire or toothed 3—5-ribbed, axils woolly, scape long deeply furrowed, 
spike very short. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 881; Don Prodr. 77; Thwaites 
Knum.945; Dene. in DC. Prodr, xii. 1,714. P. attenuata, Wall. in Roxb. 
Fl. Ind., Ed. Carey & Wall. i. 422, and Cat, 6413. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Simla, Royle, Thomson, &c. Salt 
range, Aitchison. Waziristan, alt. 5-8000 ft., Stewart. (NEPAL and CEYLON 
introduced.)—DisTRIB. Europe and N. Asia; introduced into many countries. 
Very variable in size. Rootstock tapering. Leaves 1-12 in. Scape as long or 
longer. Spike 4-3 in., ovoid, subglobose or cylindric ; bracts acuminate. Sepals 
usually ciliate. Filaments long. Seeds oblong, concavo-convex, black. 
3. P. tibetica, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & T., perennial, glabrous or 
nearly so, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate entire or 
toothed 5-ribbed, axils glabrous, scape grooved, spike. slender. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 4-11,000 ft., Stewart. WESTERN TIBET; 
common, alt. 10-13,000 ft., Thomson, Henderson. 
Rootstock short, stout. Leaves 2-4 in., variable in width, subacute. Scapes 
glabrous or puberulous, Spikes 1-6 in.; flowers very pale; bracts oblong, obtuse, 
equalling the calyx. Sepals broadly oblong, scarious, midrib green. Corolla very 
small, lobes acute. Capsule twice as long as the calyx, very pale.—Some specimens 
of apparently first year’s plants from wet places have oblong membranous leaves 
4 in. long or petioles as long, and very slender scapes and spikes. 
4. P. brachyphylla, Edgew. mss.; Dene. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 696; 
perennial, glabrous, leaves elliptic-ovate subsessile or petioled 3-5-ribbed, 
axils glabrous, scapes stout glabrous longer than the leaves and cylindric 
spikes. P. gentianoides, Dene. l. c. 721 (the Himalayan plant). 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Edgeworth, 
&c. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11-14,000 ft. ; Thomson.—Disrris. Affghanistan. 
Much resembling a small state of P. major, but the seeds are 1-2 in each cell, 
oblong and plano-convex. 
5, P. Stocksii, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 720, and Fl. Orient. iv. 
882; annual or perennial, cobwebby or subsilky, leaves shortly petioled 
lanceolate long-acuminate entire 3-nerved, scape slender longer than the 
leaves, spike short and few-fld. or long with many distant flowers, corolla- 
lobes acute. P. remotiflora, Stocks in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 179. 
N.W. Iwp1A; Waziristan, alt. 3-5000 ft., Stewart.—DuistTRis. Affghanistan 
and Beluchistan, Persia. 
Root fusiform. Leaves 2-4 in. Spikes sometimes 5 in. long, at others only à in. ; 
bracts rather shorter than the calyx, obtuse, hairy or glabrate, margin membranous, 
back green. Sepals subsimilar, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Seeds large, narrowly oblong, 
boat-shaped, black, — Waziristan is just beyond the British frontier, but as the spectes 
will probably occur on this side of it, I have thought it right to introduce the 
description. 
6. P. amplexicaulis, Cav. Jc. ii. 92, t. 125; annual or perennial, 
stemless or subcaulescent, sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves long very nar- 
rowly lanceolate finely acuminate 5-nerved, base sheathing, scapes axillary 
terete equalling or exceeding the leaves, spikes ovoid, corolla-lobes ovate 
acute. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 883; Dene. in DC. Prodr. xii. 1, 719. 
Bauphula, Edgew. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 285 (1840); Dene. l.c. P. salina, 
Dene. l. c. 720. P. lagopoides, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 135, t. 39. 
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