429  "PETRANDRIÀ MONOGYNIA- Plantago. 
prescribed by our medical gentlemen in India, where emollients are 
wanted. They are also used by the native practitioners in medicine 
“and are to be met with for sale in the Bazars of India under the 
Persian name Uspagool. 
9. P. attenuata, Wall. 
Leaves lanceolate, ending i in a bluntish acumen, tapering at t both 
ends, with a few remote toothlets, smooth, five-nerved, decurrent 
on their short petiole, the base of which is woolly. Scape five-sided, 
` sulcated, much longer than the leaves, with adpressed hairs. Spike 
cylindric, dense ; bractes acuminate ; calyx four-leaved, ciliate. | 
Specimens collected along the fields about Katmandu were com* 
municated to me by the Hon. E. Gardner. Flowering time the hot 
season. 
Root thick, sending forth a number of tig ash-coloured fibres ; 
immediately within the insertion of the leaves and on the inner sur- 
face of the base of their petiols there is a quantity of long whitish 
wool.— Leaves from three to four inches long, nearly an inch broad, 
slightly oblique, terminating in a short cylindric, somewhat thickened 
point, with a few unequally remote obtuse sub-glandular toothlets, 
quite smooth, decurrent on the short flattish striated petioles, the 
base of which widens a good deal and is woolly within.— Scapes 
several, erect, slender, several times longer than the leaves, from * 
one to three feet high, five-cornered, striated, while young thickly 
beset with greyish adpressed hairs, becoming much smoother when 
old.—Spike from one to three inches long, cylindric, densely cover- 
_ ed with ash-coloured flowers. — Bractes membranaceous, ovate, acu- 
minate, smooth, keeled.— Ca/yr unequally four-leaved, nearly trans- 
parent, slightly ciliated and tipped with a few white hairs. Corolla 
tubular, with reflected ovate acute laciniæ and a | prominent mouth. 
— Style very long and villous. 
Obs. This tall and slender species comes very near to P. eriosta- 
chya and altissima, J acqu. ; from the former it differs in the smooth- 
ness of its leaves and form.of the spike, and smooth bractes; from 
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