404 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIAS Plantage. 
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PLANTAGO. Schreb..gems D. oa 
‘Gales four-cleft,  Corol four-cleft, with border defmuel: 
Stamina very long. Capsule superior, two-celled, cut trans- 
versely. 
1. P. Ispaghula, R. Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi, 174, 
Annual, caulescent. Leaves linear-lanceolar, three-nerved, 
slightly woolly. Peduneles axillary, naked, simple, length of 
the leaves ; heads cylindric. Capsules two-celled. 
-;Hepagool, the Hindee and Persian name, and that by which 
itis most generally known in Bengal and on the coast of Co- 
romandel, 
Native place uncertain, but it is cultivated during the cho) 3 
season. 
Root ramous, annual. Stem, if any, very short, soon aivia: 
ing into three or four ascending, round, villous branches, 
which are a few inches in length, Leaves alternate, linear-lan- 
ceolate, three-nerved, luxuriant in young plants remotely den- 
ticulate, somewhat woolly, towards the base channelled, and 
‘stem-clasping ; length from six to eight inches by a quarter 
or half an inch broad. Peduncies axillary, solitary, naked, 
erect, round, a little villous, the length of the leaves, «Spikes 
solitary, terminal, before the flowers expand ovate, afterwards 
-eylindric ; when in seed about an inch or an inch and a half 
Jong.and- erect.» Flowers numerous , imbricated, sana, dail, 
Jeaved, Leaflets oblong, ories a breil selalecdnorcooat 
margins, Corol; tube gibbous. Segments ovate, acute. Fila- 
ments oblong, two-celled, four, much larger than ‘the seg- 
‘ments of the corol. Germ oblong, two-celled, with one seed 
in each, attached to the middle of the partition. Style rather 
_ Tonger than the corol. Stigma subulate, villous, Capsule cir- 
_ cumscissa, ovate, two-celled, Seeds solitary, ovate-elliptic, con- 
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