Scutellaria. | LABIATAs. 569 
i4in., from ovate or ovate-oblong to orbicular or reniform, 
3-5-lobed or -crenate or quite entire. Flowers }-1in. long, white, 
solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncles usually longer 
than the calyx, often secund. Calyx short, minutely pubescent ; 
lips obtuse, rounded ; scale at first shorter than the upper lip, but 
becoming much larger in fruit. Corolla pubescent, about twice as 
long as the calyx; lower lip rather longer than the upper one; 
lobes obtuse. Anthers glabrous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 226. 8. humilis, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 205 (not of RB. Br.). 
SourH Isnanp: Nelson—Maitai Valley and other localities near Nelson, 
T. F. C.; Foxhill, Bidwill, Monro, T. F.C. Marlborough—Pelorus and Tinline 
Valleys, MacMahon! 
Apparently a rare and local plant. It has been recorded from Banks 
Peninsula and Flagstaff Hill, near Dunedin, but I believe erroneously. 
Orper LX. PLANTAGINE A. 
Perennial or annual usually stemless herbs. Leaves generally 
radical, tufted or spreading, simple, flat, nerved. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, often dimorphic, generally in 
spikes terminating naked axillary scapes. Calyx inferior, persistent, 
deeply 4-partite, imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, 
scarious ; tube cylindric; limb with 4 spreading lobes with incurved 
margins. Stamens 4, rarely fewer, inserted on the tube of the 
corolla and alternate with its lobes; filaments usually long, 
capillary, exserted; anthers large, versatile. Ovary superior, 
2-4-celled; style filiform, with two lines of stigmatic papilla ; 
ovules few or many affixed to the septum, or solitary and basal in 
each cell. Fruit a 1—4-celled capsule with transverse dehiscence. 
Seeds usually peltate; albumen fleshy; embryo cylindric, radicle 
inferior. 
A small and very distinct order, widely spread over the globe, but most 
abundant in temperate regions. Genera 3; species variously estimated, from 60 
to over 200. The properties of the order are unimportant, and the species are 
mostly of unattractive appearance. 
PLANTAGO, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves all radical and rosulate, or 
rarely (in species not found in New Zealand) cauline and opposite 
or alternate. Scapes from the axils of the leaves, bearing at the top 
a few- or many-flowered spike of small greenish flowers. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, often dimorphic. Calyx-segments subequal. Corolla . 
scarious, persistent, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted on the tube of 
the corolla at or above the middle. Ovary 2-celled or spuriously 
3—4-celled ; ovules 1 to many in each cell. Capsule membranous, 
2-celled or by abortion 1-celled, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds 
laterally attached. 
