572 PLANTAGINEZ. [Plantago. 
calyx-segments broadly ovate, concave, obtuse or subacute, gla- 
brous or sparingly pilose, keel thick, fleshy, margins scarious. 
Corolla-tube equalling the calyx, lobes ovate, acute, spreading or 
deflexed. Capsule small, ovoid, exceeding the calyx, 2-celled. 
Seeds usually 4 in each cell.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 227; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. v. 141. P. carnosa, R. Br. Prodr. 425 (not of Lam.) ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 65, t. 43; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 207. P. picta, 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 481. 
Norra Istanp: Mount Hikurangi, Petrie! TRuahine Range, Colenso, 
Petrie! Mount Egmont, Buchanan! T. F. C.; Tararua Range, Buchanan ! 
SoutH Isnanp, StEwarRT Is~tanp, AUCKLAND Is~anDs: Not uncommon in 
mountain districts. Sea-level to 5500 ft. Also in Victoria and Tasmania. 
The Auckland Island plant is almost glabrous, and has much more fleshy 
and more deeply toothed leaves, and the spikes are usually larger. It may be 
distinct from the North and South Island mountain-plant, but both forms 
require a careful study in the field. Mr. Colenso’s P. picta, founded on a single 
specimen collected by Mr. H. Hill on a small island near to Gable-end Foreland 
(East Cape district), appears to be referable to P. Brownii, but the specimen is 
very imperfect. 
5. P. lanigera, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fil. 227.—A_ small 
depressed species. Rootstock short, stout. Leaves numerous, all 
radical, spreading, forming flat rosettes 1-2in. across, $-lin. long, 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a broad flat 
petiole, entire or obscurely sinuate-dentate, rather thick and fleshy, 
upper surface densely woolly with dirty white tortuous jointed 
hairs, under-surface woolly or almost glabrous. Scapes numerous, 
erect or inclined, at first much shorter than the leaves, but elongait- 
ing as the fruit ripens, stout, densely tomentose. Spike short, 
1—5-flowered ; flowers small, crowded. Bracts and calyx-segments 
broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous, keel dark, thick and fleshy. 
Corolla-tube equalling the calyx; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
Capsule exceeding the calyx, broadly oblong, obtuse, 2-celled. 
Seeds 6 or 7 in each cell. 
Var. Petrieii—Larger; leaves often 2in. long, thinner, upper surface 
sparingly pilose with jointed hairs, glabrous or nearly so beneath, margins 
ciliate. Scapes longer, usually exceeding the leaves. Perhaps a distinct 
species, 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains above the Clarence Valley, T. F. C. 
Canterbury—Armstrong. Otago—Lake district, Hector and Buchanan! Old 
Man Range, Hector Mountains, Mount Pisa, Mount Cardrona, Petrie! 4000- 
6000 ft. Var. Petriet: Mount Kyeburn, alt. 3500ft., Petrie! 
The ordinary state of the species is easily recognised by the copious matted 
jointed hairs on the leaves, short densely tomentose scapes, and oblong obtuse 
many-seeded capsule. 
6. P. triandra, Berggr. in Minneskr. Frsiog. Sailsk. Lund. (1877) 
16, t. 4, f. 12-33.—Rootstock short, stout, crown densely clothed 
with long red-brown silky wool, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves nu- 
