MACLOSKIE : PLANTAGINACE^E. 733 



elongate, subacute, fleshy, remotely toothed, base scarious, bearded or 

 glabrate; scapes equalling the leaves, spikes i-3-flowered. Corolla- 

 lobes subacuminate. Capszdes broad-ovate, 6-seeded, their lower part 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



Magellan ; Fuegia ; Falklands. Highly variable ; lower part of capsule 

 broad; of P. monanthos obconical, narrow, elongated. Allied to P. 

 brownii Raf. of Tasmania and New Zeal.; and to P. andicola Gill., which 

 has curious roots. 



S. Patagon., by O. R. Peterson, determined in Royal Gardens, Kew. 



PLANTAGO BARBATA ELONGATA. 



Stem simple; leaves erect, narrowly and long-linear-spatulate, obtuse, 

 remotely sinuate-dentate, bearded. 

 Magellan, at Port Gregory. 



P. BARBATA IMBERBIS Hook. f. 



Stem branching. Leaves spreading, lance-obtuse, remotely toothed, 

 bearded at base. 



Magellan, by Port Famine ; Churucca ; Fuegia. 



2. P. BISMARCKII Nied. 



Plantaginella. A small bush, 30-60 cm. high, the stem only 25 mm. 

 in diameter. Leaves in many crowded tufts on the branches, subulate, 

 silvery-hairy. Spikes 2-5-flowered, short-stalked, concealed among the 

 terminal leaves of the branches. 



(Argentina) ; N. Patagon., on Sierra de la Ventana. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 36, p. 364, A.) 



[3. P. BROWNII Raf. (P. carnosa Br.)] 



Plantaginella. Stemless; collum very thick. Leaves many, stellately 

 spreading, thick and fleshy, spatulate or lanceolate, obtuse, incised-dentate 

 or runcinate, glabrous or rarely pilose, naked at base. Scapes numerous, 

 as long as the leaves. Flower-heads compressed, i-4-flowered. Bracts 

 and calyx-leaves acute. Capsule enclosed by the calyx, rounded, circum- 

 scissile below the middle. Seeds 4-8. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3^, 



P- 364, F.) 



Auckland Is., on rocks near the sea; New Zeal.; Tasmania. "It 

 belongs to a small group of the genus, remarkable for having the flowers 



