Flantago.] cm. plantagine^ (baker). 505 



stem, narrowly linear. Heads many to a stem, globose, on ascending 

 peduncles ; bracts ovate, the lower very acute, longer than the calyx. 

 Sepals oblong, J hi. long. Calyx-lobes very small, ovate. Stamens 

 short. Capsule 2-seeded. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 3!i0 ; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 164. P. rugoaa, Hochst. ex Decne. in DC. 

 Prod. xiii. 785. 



Nile Iiand. Nubia : coast-land to between 3000 and 4000 ft., about 21' N. lat.. 

 Bent ! between Atbara and the Ked Sea, Schweinfurth, 1344 ! Abyssinia : Tigre ; 

 near Adowa, Schimper, 60! Abba Geriraa, near Adowa, ^Schimper, 76; Samen ; 

 Debra Eski, 9700 ft., Schimper, 87 ; Lotho, 8400 ft., Schiniper, 414. 



Also in the Orient and North Africa. Scarcely more than a variety of P. Psyllium. 



