142 XCIV. PLANTAGINEJE. [ Plantago. — 
ee shining green when fresh, oblon -lanceolate or spathulate, entire 
with a few teeth, quite labrous. Scapes sometimes scarce y any, 
ion shorter than the leaves but sometimes Srnec glabrous as well as 
the flowers. Flowers only 2 to 4 rarely as many as 6 in small terminal 
spikes or heads, and sometimes yoli to a sing le one, each flower 
about the size of those of P. varia. Sepals obtuse, “without much of the 
scarious margin, 1} lines long or rather more. "Corolla-lobes usually | 
rather narrow. Ovary 2-celled with 2 superposed pairs of ovules ip — 
DC. Prod. xiii. i. 727; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 304; P. carnosa, R. Br. — 
Prod. 425; not of Lam.; P. stellaris, F. Mas ll. "Fragm. ii, 28, P 
Vict. ii t. 66. = 
Vietoria. Summits r^ the Munyong —— F. Mueller 
Tasmania. Port de paana 5: Brown ; South Cape, Gunn; South Port, 
C. Stuart ; Macquarrie Harbour, Milliga 
The species is also in New Zealand Avs in the Auckland islands, and may be the | 
Dosen as one or more of the antarctic American ones referred to the same section by . 
ecaisne 5 
e 
. Stuart, seems to me to be a small state of P. Brownii reduced to 1 or 2 flowers on 
the scape as in P. Gunnii, but with the foliage and stock of the sinl specimens M vs : 
Brownti. The specimens before me from C. Stuart's collection show a gradual se 
from the small Liowered to the oo 4- to 6-flowered states. Brown’s own se 
mens pis bah only 1 or 2 flowe 
8. P. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 446, t. 13, and Fl | 
Tasm. i. 904. A small densely tufted almost moss- "PS plant, the stems - 
loli packed but slender, branching and grow o 1 in. or more, | 
covered with thin persistent remains of old leaves ind ending r as read- 
ing tuft of fresh ones. Leaves from narrow ovate-o inear- 
e of ovules in each cell, but usually only one ' appears to ripen.— 
ene, in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 79 8. i 
Tasmania. Loftiest parts of the Western Mountains, Gunn, Archer. 
Orper XCV. PHYTOLACCACEJZ. 
Perianth of 5 ari 4 divisions or lobes, either all herbat 
e on the margins or coloured inside, 
EE 
lian 5 or omm imm and stipitate. Stamens as ie as 
divisions and alternate with them or more numer inse 
torus or at the base of the perianth ; anthers 2-celled, the cells parallel, 
opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary either of a single somewhat ex 
