706 cxni. PLANTAGINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Plantago. 



** Corolla glabrous. Capsule ^-celled, cells 1-2-seeded. 



2. P. lanceolata, Linn. ; perennial, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate 

 entire or toothed 3-5-ribbed, axils woolly, scape long deeply furrowed, 

 spike very short. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 881 ; Don Prodr. 77 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 245 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 714 P. attenuata, Wall, in Roxl. 

 FL Ind., Ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 422, and Cat. 6413. 



WESTEBN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Simla, Royle, Thomson, &c. Salt 

 range, Aitchison. Waziristan, alt. 5-8000 ft., Stewart. (NEPAL and CEYLON 

 introduced.) DISTEIB. Europe and N. Asia; introduced into many countries. 



Very variable in size. Rootstock tapering. Leaves 112 in. Scape as long or 

 longer. Spike -3 in., ovoid, subglobose or cylindric ; bracts acuminate. Sepals 

 usually ciliate. Filaments long. Seeds oblong, concavo-convex, black. 



3. P. tibetica, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. fy T. ; perennial, glabrous or 

 nearly so, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate entire or 

 toothed 5-ribbed, axils glabrous, scape grooved, spike slender. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 4-11,000 ft., Stewart. WESTEEN TIBET; 

 common, alt. 10-13,000 ft., Thomson, Henderson. 



Rootstock short, stout. Leaves 2-4 in., variable in width, subacute. Scapes 

 glabrous or puberulous. Spikes 1-6 in. ; flowers very pale ; bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 equalling the calyx. Sepals broadly oblong, scarious, midrib green. Corolla very 

 small, lobes acute. Capsule twice as long as the calyx, very pale. Some specimens 

 of apparently first year's plants from wet places have oblong membranous leaves 

 4 in. long or petioles as long, and very slender scapes and spikes. 



4. P. brachyphylla, Edgew. mss.-, Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 696; 

 perennial, glabrous, leaves elliptic-ovate subsessile or petioled 3-5-ribbed, 

 axils glabrous, scapes stout glabrous longer than the leaves and cylindric 

 spikes. P. gentianoides, Dene. I. c. 721 (the Himalayan plant). 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Edgeworth, 

 &c. WESTEEN TIBET, alt. 11-14,000 ft. ; Thomson. DISTEIB. Afghanistan. 



Much resembling a small state of P. major, but the seeds are 1-2 in each cell, 

 oblong and plano-convex. 



5. P. Stocksii, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 720, and Fl. Orient, iv. 

 882; annual or perennial, cobwebby or subsilky, leaves shortly petioled 

 lanceolate long-acuminate entire 3-nerved, scape slender longer than the 

 leaves, spike short and few-fld. or long with many distant flowers, corolla- 

 lobes acute. P. remotiflora, Stocks in Hook. JLew Journ. Sot. iv. 179. 



N.W. INDIA; Waziristan, alt. 3-5000 ft., Stewart. DISTEIB. Afghanistan 

 and Beluchistau, Persia. 



Root fusiform. Leaves 24 in. Spikes sometimes 5 in. long, at others only |- in. ; 

 bracts rather shorter than the calyx, obtuse, hairy or glabrate, margin membranous, 

 back green. Sepals subshnilar, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Seeds large, narrowly oblong, 

 boat-shaped, black. Waziristan is just beyond the British frontier, but as the species 

 will probably occur on this side of it, I have thought it right to introduce the 

 description. 



6. P. amplexicaulis, Cav. Ic. ii. 22, t. 125 ; annual or perennial, 

 stemless or subcaulescent, sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves long very nar- 

 rowly lanceolate finely acuminate 5-nerved, base sheathing, scapes axillary 

 terete equalling or exceeding the leaves, spikes ovoid, corolla-lobes ovate 

 acute. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 883 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 719. P. 

 Bauphula, Edgew. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 285 (1840) ; Dene. 1. c. P. salina, 

 Dene. 1. c. 720. P. lagopoides, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 135, t. 39. 



