446 A NEW SPECIES OF PLANTAGO. 



the 3 outer female, the inner larger and male. Perianth 

 of male flowers clavate, 4-dentate, the teeth large, erect ; of 

 the female, shorter, narrower, tubular, and also cleft; the 

 teeth spreading. Stamens nearly free, \ exserted. Styles 

 all exserted ; of the male capitules 2 lobed, of the female 

 bifid. Achmiia all larger than thein volucral scales, short 

 obovate, tetragonous, with the angles keeled, truncated at the 

 broad apex, its coat coriaceous. Seed broadly ovoid. 

 Plate XIV.— Fig. 1. Tuft of the natural size; /. 2. capi- 



tulum ; /. 3. female flower ; /. 4, male ditto ; /. 5. stamen ; 

 /. 6. achsenium; /. 7- seed; /. 8. vertical section of 



achsenium; /. 8. embryo; /. 10. and 11. leaves: — all 



magnified. 



Plantago Gunnii, Hook. fil. ; pumila, caule gracili folioso, 

 foliis ovato-oblongis subacutis integerrimis basi in p e " 

 tiolum vaginantem attenuatis supremis erecto-patentibus 

 superne pilis elongatis articulatis crinitis, subtus gl a_ 

 berrimis, pedunculo brevissimo terminali 1-floro, filamentis 

 brevibus, capsula 2-loculari esperma. (Tab. XIII.) 

 Hab. Tasmania, in tufts of Scleroleima forsteroides, (just 

 described), very rare, R. C. Gunn y Esq. 

 This is decidedly the smallest species of the genus, 

 barely distinguishable amongst the tufts of Scleroleima it 

 inhabits : it is further the only truly single flowered species 

 I have seen, the P. monanthos often bearing two, or 

 several flowers. 



Descr. — Stems solitary or a few together, growing m 

 tufts of other plants, 1-2 inches long, very slender, leafy* 

 for almost the whole way up. Leaves | inch long, loosely 

 imbricating. Petiole as long as the lamina, semi-amplexicaul, 

 smooth ; lamina ovato-oblong, concave, smooth below, above 

 covered with long whitish jointed hairs. Peduncle very short, 

 pubescent. Bractea concave and one-flowered; capiivl" 1 * 

 hidden amongst the uppermost leaves ; calyx-leaves as long 

 as the bractea, elliptical, oblong, acute. Corolla with ft 



