Ci/maria.] cxn. LABIAT.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 705 



1. C. dichotoma, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 64, Lab. 705, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 603; branches petioles cymes and leaves beneath finely 

 pubescent, leaves ovate or rhomboid subacute faintly crenate, cymes axillary 

 long-peduncled lax-fld. Wall. Gat. 2080. 



BURMA ; at Taong-dong, WallicTi. 



Stem terete, woody ; branches strict, slender, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 3-4 by 

 1^-2 in., membranous, base cuneate; petiole \-\ in. Peduncle -2 in., slender. 

 Calyx ^ in., teeth triangular acute, as long as the tube. Corolla minute, tube hardly 

 exserted. Stamens included. Nutlets 3 ' 5 in. 



2. C. elong-ata, Benth. in Watt. PL As. Rar. i. 64, Lab. 705, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 603 ; branches petioles leaves beneath and cymes densely 

 tomentose, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse subcrenate, cymes short-peduncled 

 dense-fld. in a long terminal leafy raceme. Wall. Cat. 2079. 



BURMA; at Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Branches long, robust. Leaves l|-3 in., thick, finely tomeutose above. Peduncle 

 %-% in., and pedicels stout. Calyx in., as in C. dichotoma, but tomentose. Nutlets 

 J ? in., obovoid. 



ORDER CXIII. PLANTAGINEJE. 



Scapigerous herbs. Leaves usually radical. Scapes axillary. Flowers 

 small, greenish, spicate, often dimorphic. Sepals 4, imbricate in bud, per- 

 sistent. Corolla hypogynous, salver-shaped, scarious ; lobes 4, imbricate in 

 bud. Stamens 4, inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments capillary, inflexed 

 in bud, persistent ; anthers large, pendulous, versatile. Ovary free, 2-4- 

 celled ; style filiform with 2 lines of stigmatic hairs ; ovules 1 basal in 

 each cell, or several peltately attached to the septum. Capswle 1-4-celled, 

 circurnsciss, membranous, 1- or more-seeded, septum free. Seed usually 

 peltate, testa thin, mucilaginous, albumen fleshy; embryo cylindric, trans- 

 verse, radicle inferior. Genera 3, species about 50. The above character 

 does not include the anomalous monotypic genera Littorella and Bougueria. 



Plant ago, Linn. 



Characters of the Order. 



Sect. 1. Euplantagro, Boiss. Leaves all radical. 



* Corolla glabrous. Capsule ^-celled, cells 4>-8-seeJed. Seeds angular. 



1. P. major, Linn. ; perennial, leaves petioled oblong or oblong-ovate 

 subentire or toothed 3-7-ribbed, scape short, spike very long and slender. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 878; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xii. 1, 696; Thivaites 

 JEnum. 245. P. erosa, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., Ed. Carey # Wall. i. 423, 

 and Cat. 6412 ; Don Prodr. 77 ; Dene. I. c. P. asiatica, Linn. Sp. PL 163 ; 

 Dene. 1. c. 695 ; Wight III. t. 177. P. longiscapa, Jacquem. mss. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA; from Peshavvur aftd Kashmir to Bhotan, 

 alt. 2-8000 ft., and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ASSAM, Griffith. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt 4-5000 ft. BURMA and MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPORE or PENANG, 

 Walker. BOMBAY, Stocks. NILGHIRI HILLS, FoulJces, &c. CEYLON; higher 

 parts of the island, Walker, &c. DISTRIB. Malay Islands ; Affghanistan and west- 

 wards to the Atlantic ; wild or introduced, in these and many other countries. 



Glabrous or hairy ; rootstock stout, truncate. Leaves 2-5 in., variable in breadth, 

 toothing irregular; petiole sometimes 4 in. Spike 3-6 in.; flowers scattered or 

 crowded ; bracts equalling the calyx. Sepals, glabrous, % in. long, margins broadly 

 scarious, obtusely keeled. Filaments short. Seeds very minute, black. 

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