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transversely or indehiscent. Seeds peltately affixed to the septum or to 
a basilar placenta, amphitropous; albumen fleshy; embryo ES 8 to the 
hilum, with a short inferior radicle, the cotyledons scarcely bro 
Herbs with radical tufted or spreading leaves, rarely branched sad teafy 
shrubs. Flower-stalks leaf aa bearing a simple spike or head or a single 
terminal flow 
A small Or a ‘at 3 genera, sacl spread over the globe, but most abundant in the 
Ph aes regions of the Old Wor 
1. PLANTAGO, L. 
Ovary 2- or nero 3—4-celled. Capsule opening apenas fon 
mucilaginous, 1—8 in each cell; affixed to the septum. — Leaves crowded 
in stemless, eres in caulescent or branching plants, the pa 
axillary. 
Geographical range of the Order, of which this eget contains all but two species. 
Herbaceous, stemless; 4—8 ovules in each cell of the o 3. P. major. 
Gathers. with woody stem; overs patent; leaves and sepals 
acute, the leaves much narrowed at the base or petiolate with 
pos 1. P. princeps. 
Acaulous, with a woody rhizome; " flowers suberect; “eaves and 
sepals obtuse, the leave Fas broad at the base, with nerves 
discreet. Plants of high altitudes . 
LPs princeps, Cham. & Schl. in Sian L 167. _ De. Prod. XII, Sect. I, 
pp. 700 and 704. — Stem woody, 2—6 ft. high, erect, simple, rarely branching, 
covered with annular leaf-scars and foliose near the top, glabrous ex- 
cepting a faint caducous tomentum in the axils of the leaves. Leave 
coriaceous, ney set lanceolate to elliptico-oblong, 4—9‘ lo 14h 
2. P. pachyphylla. 
acute, entire, 7—11-nerved, the nerves running down to the muarately 
contracting cn brody sessile base, the inner ones uniting at the con- 
vas ion. Scapes several, about 1 ft. long, naked in the lower 
ted po 
third, glabrous, the flowers not close, sessile and patent. Bracts as long 
as and similar to the sepals. Sepals broad ovate, acuminate, with a broad 
black median streak and scarious margins, l'/2”. Corolla scarious, its 
tube as long as the calyx, the lobes '/2 as long, ovate-acute, 1-nerved, 
at last reflexed. Stamens rising from the base of the tube, long-e xserted, 
the short anthers broadly sagittate, almost cordate, pointed at the apex 
and at the base of the cells. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 
Style long-exserted, pubescent in ‘its entire length, bidentate. coe 
ovoid-elongate, twice the length of the calyx, cir rcumscissile above 
ase, with entire dissepiment and 2—4 plano-convex oblong black pen 
— Gray, in Proc. Am, Ac. VI, 54. — var. elata, Wawra, in Flora, 1874, 
P. 563. — P. eieiies, Gist: Bot. Freye. p. 445, tab. 50. -- Hook. & Arn 
in Bot. Beech. 
oe ieee ae oe at altitudes of 2000—4000 ft. Nat. name: «Ale». — Placed 
next to P. Fernandeziana, Bert., from Juan Fernandez, by Decaisne. 
