60 Robert Pilger. — Plantaginaceae. 



dimidium calycem aequans, 1,5 mm longa. Capsula 4 mm partim superans, superne parum 

 conico-attenuata, parum supra basin circumscissa ; semina 10 — 18. 



China: Yünnan, Pe yen tsin (Simeon Ten n. 273 — blühend und fruchtend im 

 September 1915). 



4. P. centralis Pilger in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem VIII. Nr. 72. (1922) 

 106. — Parvula, rhizomate brevi. Rosula densa multif oliata ; folia papyracea, sicca fragilia, 

 anguste elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, inferne sensim cuneatim in petiolum rigidum, angustum, 

 lamina breviorem angustata, glabra vel villis longioribus inspersa, 3 — 5 cm longa, 1,2 — (raro) 

 2,7 cm lata, margine valde irregulariter incisa, nonnunquam fere integra, saepius grosse 

 dentata, dentibus paucis irregularibus, triangularibus, obtusis vel angustioribus, acutis. 

 Inflorescentiae satis numerosae; spicae pedunculus adscendens, ± arcuatus, subteres vel 

 compressus, striatus, 8 — 10 cm longus, pilis brevibus albidis parce inspersus; spica satis 

 densa, basi tantum laxa, 5 — 12 cm longa. Bractea 2 /s calycis aequans, ovata, 2 — 2,25 mm 

 longa. Calycis stipes brevis; sepala 2,25 — 2,5 mm longa, antica angustiora elliptica vel 

 subobovato-elliptica, carina cum striis adjacentibus angusta; sepala postica latiora 

 rotundato-ovata, parum apice angustata, carina aeque angusta. Corollae lobi triquetri 

 vel anguste triquetri, acutiusculi, 1 mm longi. Capsula superne conico-attenuata, parum 

 supra basin circumscissa, ad 4 mm longa; semina 7 — 9, ad 1,75 mm longa. 



China: Yünnan, 2900 m ü. M. (Maire n. 3114, Ser. B in Bonati, PI. du Yunnan — 

 blühend und fruchtend im Mai 1910; Typus); Süd-Szetchuan, bei Hui li chou, am Bach- 

 ufer (Schneider n. 552 — März 1914). 



5. P. erosa Wallich in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey I. (1820) 423; Decne. in DC. Prodr. 

 XIII. 1. (1852) 696 p. p.; Pilger in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem VIII. Nr. 72. 

 (1922) 106. — P. major L. sec. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. (1885) 705; Thwaites, Enum. 

 PL Zeylan. (1861) 245. — P. major L. var. asiatica Decne. sec. Trimen, Fl. Ceylon III. 

 (1895) 389. — P. longiscapa Jacquemont nomen ex Decne. 1. c. — P. filiformis Buch. -Harn, 

 ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. (1825) 77. — Annua (vel et perennis?), radice plerumque 

 haud diu persistente. Folia 9 — 15 rosulata, lamina plerumque tenuis, sicca membranacea 

 et fragilis, anguste elliptica vel elliptica, superne breviter arcuatim vel cuneato-arcuatim 

 angustata, apice ipso obtusiuscula, basin versus ± late cuneatim angustata, 4 — 9 cm 

 longa, 1,3 — 4 cm lata, junior ± dense villosula, tum glabrescens vel saepius ± villis in- 

 spersa, margine plerumque dentibus nonnullis irregularibus, magnis, 2 — 5 mm longis 

 instructa, raro distincte lobata vel fere integra et parum tantum undulata, nervis (exceptis 

 nervis marginalibus tenuibus 2 haud percurrentibus) plerumque 3, supra subtiliter im- 

 pressis, subtus anguste prominentibus, petiolus a lamina bene discretus, angustus, basi 

 parum vel et latius triquetro-dilatatus, junior ± villosus, demum glabrescens, 4 — 10 cm 

 longus, lana basali evoluta. Inflorescentiae satis numerosae; spicae pedunculus erectus 

 vel adscendens, ± arcuatus, tenuis, sulcato-striatus, 8 — 30 cm longus, fere glabrescens, 

 parce tantum villis brevioribus inspersus; spica angusta, 4 — 20 cm longa, adulta, imprimis 

 fructifera, perlaxa, rhachi ad basin bractearum hie illic parce villosa. Bractea a calyce 

 parum distans, y 2 — % calycis aequans, elliptica, parum coneava, 2 mm longa, margine 

 glabra vel pilis brevissimis ciliolata, carina parum prominente, laminis lateralibus aequi- 

 lata. Calycis stipes brevis; sepala 2 — 2,5 mm longa, antica elliptica vel ovata, saepe parum 

 inaequilatera ; sepala postica ovata vel late obovato-elliptica vel subrotundata, e carina 

 satis angusta percurrente breviter acutata. Corollae lobi parvi, anguste triquetri, obtusi 

 vel lanceolato-ovati usque anguste ovati, 1 mm longi. Capsula calycem superans, versus 

 basin circumscissa, pars superior conico-attenuata, apice anguste truncata; Ovula plerumque 

 numerosa, ad circ. 20, raro 7 — 8 tantum, pleraque in semina evoluta; semina parva nigro- 

 brunnea, ambitu irregulariter circ. elliptica vel varie angulosa, crassiuscula, impresso- 

 punctulata, 1 — 1,5 mm longa. 



Vorderindien: Ceylon (Walker; Thwaites n. 2246); Nilgherries (Perrottet 

 n. 978; PI. Ind. Or. ed. Hohenacker 1851 n. 975; Thomson); Kulhutty Babobood (?) 

 (Meebold n. 10 375 — fruchtend im Oktober 1908); Nepal (Wallich n. 6412/c — 1821); 



