708 CXIIL PLANTAGINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Plantago. 
flexuous glabrous or puberulous, leaves filiform, margins revolute, peduncles 
in the upper axils, spikes ovoid or subglobose puberulous, bracts all longer 
than the calyx, lower eqaalling the spike, corolla lobes finely acuminate. 
Dene. in DC. Prodr. xii. 1, 735; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 891. Plantago, 
Griff. It. Notes, 214, n. 84, and Notule, iv. 213; and Fe. Pl. Asiat. 
t. 462. 
Nortu-West INDIA; Royle (raised from seed bought in Bazaar).— DISTRIP. 
Affghanistan, Egypt. 
This is, I think, a form of P. Psyllium, or of P. stricta, Schousb. Royle’s only 
specimen is very small, 6 in. high and slender, but Griffith’s from Affghanistan 
is a foot high with a very robust stem.— Boissier doubtfully refers P. indica, L, 
to this. 
ORDER CXIV. NYCTAGINEZ. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually opposite, quite entire, exstipu- 
late. Inflorescence various, flowers often involucrate. Perianth petaloid, 
monopetalous ; tube persistent, enveloping the fruit; limb 3—5-lobed, plaited 
in bud. Stamens 8-30, hypogynous, sometimes unilateral, filaments usually 
unequal, infexed in bud; anthers didymous. Ovary free, 1-celled; style 
involute in bud, stigma simple or multifid; ovule 1, erect. Fruit 
membranous, enclosed in the hardened perianth-tube. Seed erect, testa 
adherent, albumen floury or soft; embryo curved, coiled or with folded 
cotyledons, radicle inferior.—Genera 23, species 215, chiefly tropical 
American. 
TRIBE I. Mirabilieg. Embryo hooked, radicle long. 
Flowers involucrate . . woe ee s.s. ew ew s s s s. l. OXYBAPRUS. 
Flowers not involucrate . . . . ©.’ 2.0. 0. . . 2. BOERHAAVIA. 
Tsise IT. Pisoniese. Hmbryo straight, radicle short. 
3. PIsONIA. 
1. OXYBAPHUWS, Vail. 
Herbs. Leaves opposite. nvolucrel-5-füd. Perianth-tube short, limb 
deciduous. Stamens 2-5, filaments connate below. Fruit small.—Species 
about 20, all but the following American. 
O. himalaicus, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 87; glandular-pubes- 
cent, viscid, leaves petioled ovate or ovate-cordate, flowers solitary 1m eae 
involucre. Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 430. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kulu to Gurwhal, alt. 6-9000 ft., Edgeworth, Kc. . 
Stem 2-4 ft., branched, terete, brittle. Leaves 2-3 by 14-2} in., acute, ciliolata; 
petiole 4-1 in. Flowers panicled, involucre 4 in., campanulate, 5-toothed, visi 
Perianth included, rosy, contracted above the ovary, limb spreading. Stamens ^» 
included. Fruit} in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid, rough, black. 
