364 PLANTAGINACEAE. _ [Plantago. 
8 var. laxifolia, Gray. — Stem 1/2—2 ft. high, fistulous, with deciduous 
wool in the axils of the young leaves. Leaves rather distant, membranous, 
glabrate on both faces, broad lanceolate, 7-—8‘ >< 1—2'/2', narrowing into 
a margined petiole of 1—2‘. Scapes 1— 11/2 ft., with a few hairs at the 
base of the flowers or glabrate. 
Ha i! Kohala and Hamakua, on low plains and near the seashore; Maui! ravines 
back ee Sahin ina; Kauai? leaves hl (Wawra). 
ar. longibracteata, Mann, Enum. no. 305, — Subherbaceous, with a short 
matted wool between the leaves. Leaves on slender not margined petioles 
of 2-—2!/2’, narrow lanceolate or elliptical, 4—8‘ >< #/4—-11/4', acute at both 
ends, 7-nerved, the nerves underneath covered with a coarse ochraceous 
matted wool, otherwise glabrous. Scapes slender, flexuose, loosely flowered. 
in the upper half, with some wool phen the flowers. Bracts of the 
lower flowers as long as the calyx or longer, sometimes 2 or 3 times as 
long, very acute, as are the sepals a lobes ee the corolla, — var. aquatilis, 
awra, l, c. 
Wat s of Hanalei and Hanapepe, Kauai. Beyond reach of the falls the 
stem turns upright and the plant approaches the habit of rina (Wawra). 
8 var. hirtella, Gray. — Stem erect, about 2 ft. long, fistular, with 
aE ae wool in the axils. Leaves rather flaccid, elliptico- oblong, 
—6‘ X 1'/4—1'/2', narrowing into petioles of 1—2‘, with 7—9 nerves, 
ao with crisp hairlets on both _ particularly on the nerves under- 
neath. Scapes stramineous, flex —11J2 ft., hispid below and between 
the rather distant flowers. ay . sepals ciliate, the latter exceeding 
the former. 
Kauai! Waimea, 2000-3000 ft.; Oahu! Makaleha. 
e. var. oe — Stem 2—8 ft., solid, with —_ scaly wool in 
e axils. Leaves obovate- oblong: 6—10/ & 11/2—23/4’, not distinctly 
petit i ieistslavatieaioubate papillose or papilloso- hiepia on both faces, 
Scapes often 2 ft. long, always _ loosely flow- 
oa in ewe upper half. Capsules not longer than the ¢ 
Molo li of Pelekunu, leaves 1 with the nerves aie batty underneath ; 
pali of ome, leaves smaller, with senna nerves 
2. P. pachyphylla, ‘Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. VI, 54, — Stemless, with 
a short cree creeping or suberect thick caudex emitting rootlets along its 
whole length, clothed with the vestiges of old leaves and with a dense 
coating i 
the nerves broad and impressed above, prominent beneath, discreet t 
the base. Scape generally single, stiff, compressed, 10—16/ long, flocculose, 
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