390 PLANTAGINE (Cooke). | Plantago. 
subulate teeth, obscurely 3-nerved, sessile, clothed on both sides 
with lax slender spreading hairs; peduncles terete, 54 in. long 
in the only specimen at Kew, clothed with lax spreading 
hairs; spikes cylindric, 1} in. long; rhachis with long slender 
hairs; bracts boat-shaped, rostrate, with broad scarious margins, 
the lower bracts reaching 2 lin. long, the upper rather shorter ; 
sepals 1-1} lin. long, suborbicular, quite glabrous ; corolla-lobes 
scarcely 4 lin. long, ovate, acute ; style 1 lin. long ; capsules 
13 lin. long, ovoid, glabrous, coming off circumscissilely from near 
the base ; seeds 1} lin. long, ellipsoid, with rounded back and a flat 
channelled face, black, smooth. P. Loeflingii, Thunb. Prodr. 30, 
and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 148 (not of Linn.). P. Bellardi, Drége, 
Zwei Pf. Documente, 103. 
Coast ReGion : Malmesbury Div. ; Riebeeks Castle, under 1000 ft., Drége! 
5. P. capillaris (E. Meyer ex Decne in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 719); a 
small plant 1 to 6 in. high ; leaves narrowly linear or subulate, as long 
as or often longer than the peduncles, sessile, usually dilated at the 
base, entire or remotely toothed, or distantly and pinnatifidly lobed 
with short subulate lobes, clothed with long laxly spreading hairs ; 
peduncles terete, slender, suberect, usually shorter than the leaves, 
laxly and softly pilose with spreading hairs ; spikes dense, sub- 
globose or ovoid oblong, 2-8 lin. long ; rhachis densely clothed with 
long slender hairs ; bracts boat-shaped, rostrate, ovate, acute, with 
broad scarious margins, 13 lin. long, hairy on the back ; sepals 1-1} 
lin. long, suborbicular, quite glabrous; corolla-lobes 4 lin. long, 
suborbicular, quite glabrous ; corolla-lobes 4 lin. long, ovate-oblong, 
subacute, glabrous ; style 1 lin. long; capsules a little longer than 
the sepals, ovoid, rounded at the apex, coming off circumscissilely 
near the base ; seeds oblong-ellipsoid, } lin. long, rounded on the 
back, flattened on the face, black. 
Coast Reoton: Van Rhynsdorp Div.; Olivants River, Drege! Clanwilliam 
Div.; Vogelfontein, Schlechter, 8524! Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, under 
1000 ft., Drége! Worcester Div. ; Hex River Valley, Wolley-Dod, 4040! 
WestERN REGION: Little Namaqualand; Klipfontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 684 ! 
6. P. longissima (Decne in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 720); rootstock 
woolly ; leaves 2-6 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 
glabrous, 5—9-nerved, coriaceous ; petioles long, exceeding the blades ; 
peduncles longer than the leaves, terete or striate ; spikes 6-15 in. 
long, lax-flowered below; bracts 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, with 
membranous margins; sepals 14 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, 
apiculate, with broad membranous margins and a strong keel ; 
corolla-tube 1 lin. long; lobes } lin. long, ovate, subobtuse ; fila- 
ments 1 lin. long, filiform; anthers } lin. long; style hairy, 
variable in length, very long and conspicuous nearly } in. 
long, or only 1 lin. long; capsules 1} lin. long, subglobose, _ 
quite glabrous, 2-seeded ; seeds 1 lin. long, elliptic-oblong, with a 
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