Plantayo. | PLANTAGINEZ (Cooke). 389 
i. 694; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 705; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. v. 503 ; Barn. Monogr. Plantag. 10. 
Souta Arrica : without locality, Mund ! 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div. ; damp hollows near the sea coast at Port 
Alfred, 50 ft., Galpin, 2945! 
Centra Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Voor Sneeuw Berg, Burchell, 2856 ! 
Cosmopolitan. 
2. P. dregeana (Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 105); leaves 8-12 in. long, 
4-7 in. broad, ovate-oblong with sinuate margins, thin, glabrous, 
7-nerved, attenuated into a channelled petiole often much longer 
than the blade ; spikes reaching 1 ft. long on long terete peduncles ; 
bracts as long as the calyx, oblong, obtuse, with membranous 
margins; sepals 1} lin. long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, quite 
glabrous, with membranous margins ; corolla-tube } lin. long ; lobes 
as long as the tube, deltoid-oblong, subacute, membranous ; filaments 
11 lin. long, filiform ; anthers ? lin. long, apiculate; style 2 lin. 
long ; capsules 1} lin. long, subglobose, circumscissilely dehiscing 
about the middle ; seeds numerous, 3 lin. long, obscurely angular, 
rugulose, dark brown. Decne in DO. Prodr. xiii. i. 695. 
Coast Region: Albany Div., Bowker ! 
we Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, — 
KataHari Recion: Transvaal ; Aapies Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4023 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal ; Botanic Gardens, Wood, 3848 ! 
3. P. lanceolata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 113); perennial, stemless ; 
rootstock tapering ; leaves 1-12 in. long, $—14 in. broad, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire or toothed, gradually narrowed 
to a sessile base or to a short petiole, 3—5- (rarely 7-) nerved ; axils 
woolly ; peduncles longer than the leaves, grooved, angular, erect 
or ascending, puberulous or glabrous; spikes $—Z in. long, ovoid, 
globose or cylindric ; bracts ovate, acuminate, as long as the calyx, 
glabrous ; sepals oblong, obtuse, 14 lin. long, hairy on the nerves at 
the back near the top, 2 of them connate almost throughout their 
length, giving rise to a 3-lobed calyx with 1 of the sepals obovate, 
2-fid at the apex and 2-nerved ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long ; lobes 1 lin. 
long, broadly ovate, acuminate, usually with a tubercular thickening 
at the base of each lobe; filaments 1} lin. long; anthers 1} lin. 
long ; style 2 lin. long; capsules 2-seeded. Decne in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. i. 714; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 206 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
iv. 706 ; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 503. 
Coast Region: Cathcart Div. ; Glencairn, 4800 ft., Galpin, 2406! East 
London Div. ; West Bank, near East London, 50 ft., Galpin, 7350! 
Eastern Reaion : Natal ; Mooi River, Wood, 4057! 
Cosmopolitan, 
4. P. cafra (Decne in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 719); annual ; leaves 
6-8 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, entire or distantly toothed with 
