Plantago sect. Mesembrynia. 275 



Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 3 ser. VIII. n. 2. (1930) 130. — P. arctica Decne. 1 c. 700, sec. descr. — 

 P. Mohnikei Miq. Prolus. Fl. Japon. Pars Quinta, in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. III. (1867) 

 119, sec. descr. — P. villifera Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XXVI. (1879) 87. — 

 P. media A. Gray sec. Matsumura 1. c. 1 ). — Perennis, at jam primo anno florens, caudice 

 crassiusculo, radice valida, crassiuscula, inferne plerumque partita, radicellis multis flli- 

 formibus. Folia crassiuscula, rigidula vel in specim. majoribus tenuiora et parum flexilia, 

 anguste elliptica vel et ellipsoideo-ovata, superne satis breviter late vel angustius rotundato- 

 cuneatim angustata vel et lanceolato-ovalia et longius angustata, apice ipso obtusiuscula, 

 inferne longius vel brevius angustata (lamina in petiolum transeunte 2,5 — 12 cm longa, 

 petiolo 1 — 4 cm longo), vix denticulata vel distinctius irregulariter dentata, ± copiose 

 albido-villosula, demum imprimis supra ± glabrescentia, petiolus angustus vel latior 

 et brevis, saepe magis copiose quam lamina villosus, nonnunquam fere tomentoso-villosus. 

 Spicae pedunculus ± ascendens vel basi tantum arcuatus, firmus, teres, striatus, 15 ad 

 20 cm longus; spica crassiuscula, 1,5 — 9 cm longa, superne densa, inferne vel basi tantum 

 laxa floribus ± remotis. Bractea y 2 — % calycis aequans, lanceolato-ovata usque ovata, 

 apice membranacea, 2,5 — fere 3 mm longa, aeque ac sepala plerumque glabra, nonnun- 

 quam in carina pilis minimis instructa. Sepala 2,5 mm longa, obtusa vel membranaceo- 

 apiculata, carina haud omnino percurrente, antica elliptica vel obovato-elliptica; se- 

 pala postica late usque rotundato-elliptica, carinata, carina a laminis lateralibus firme 

 membranaceis bene distincta. Lobi corollae semi-ovales vel ovati, margine superne 

 ± erosuli vel denticulati, parvi, tenuiter membranacei, nervus parum conspicuus. Capsula 

 usque calycem duplo superans, vel et brevior, pars superior semi-ellipsoidea, apice rotun- 

 data. Ovula 4 — 5, omnia vel pro parte in semina evoluta [in specim. cultis nonnunquam 

 ovula 6 — 7 observata]; semina rubro-brunnea usque nigricantia, bene evoluta usque 

 2 mm longa, ambitu irregulariter ovalia vel ± angulosa, facie hili plana vel parum con- 

 vexa subtiliter impresso-punctulata. 



Nom. venu: Ezo-öbako, Hakusa-öbako (Matsumura), Gasari-obako 

 (Miquel). 



Verbreitung: [Typus Hort. Berol. aus Samen der Sammlung Ghamisso]. 

 Kamtschatka: Ad portum St. Petri et Pauli [Petropawlowsk] (A. v. Ghamisso — 

 1816); (Exped. Explor. Th. P. Riabouchinsky, leg. Komarov — 1908). Sachalin 

 (Glehn — 1862). Korea: Quelpaert (Taquet n. 1258 — September 1908, n. 1260 — 

 Oktober 1908). Nippon : Aomori (Faurie n. 5872 — 1904); Niigata, in rupibus mari- 

 timis (Faurie n. 143; Herb. Paris [P. villifera]) ; Prov. Nambu (Maximowicz, It. II. 

 leg. Tschonoski — 1865); Prov. Etchigo, bei Niigata (Faurie n. 2369 — 1898). 

 Verbreitung nach Hulten I.e.: Commander Islands, Kurilen, Sachalin, Amur prov., 

 Ussuri, Korea, Japan; Verbreitung in Japan nach Matsumura I.e.: Kurilen, Yezo, 

 Kiusiu, Tsusima [von Nippon wird P. Mohnikei angegeben]. 



Species incertae sedis. 



157. P. Mitchellii Decne. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 1. (1852) 701 n. 36. — »Gracilis, foliis 

 elliptico-lanceolatis subrepandis obtusis in petiolum canaliculatum gracilem attenuatis 

 utrinque pilis laxis inspersis, peduneulis gracilibus folia duplo superantibus pubescentibus, 

 spicis laxifloris oblongis vel ovatis, bracteis brevibus ovato-rotundis glabris, foliolis caly- 

 cinis ovatis glabris, corollae lobis subcordatis albis macula ferruginea inferne notatis, 

 ovario 2-loculari, loculis 2-ovulatis. O In Nov. Holl. subtropica (cap. Mitchell). Stamina 

 vix exserta. (v. s. in herb. Hooker).« 



Im Herb. Kew kein Exemplar gesehen. 



x ) Matsumura zitiert: P. media A. Gray, On the botany of Japan (1859) 316. — A. Gray 

 gibt P. media von Hakodadi in: List of dried plants collected in Japan by Wells Williams and 

 Dr. James Morrow (Washington 1856 — 57, in Fr. Lister Hawks, Narration of the expedition of 

 an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan in 1852 — 54). 



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