PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA L. VAR. SPH^ROSTACHYA ROHL 21 



/3. Leaf rachis winged, 



* Leaves 5-10-jugate. Leaflets ovate or oblong-lanceolate, thinly 



coriaceous, 6-0-12*5 cm. long, 1*2-5*0 cm. broad. 



19. B. andongensis Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. 174 (1896). 

 Hab. Lower Guinea. Angola. In secondary thickets near 



Luxillo, Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, no. 1698 I 



Var. nov. ugandensis. Arbor parva; foliis ± 9-jugis cum 

 impari sessili jugis proximis quam distalibus multo minoribus 

 foliolis oblongis acuminatis subtus ad nervos pilis sparse vestitis, 

 rachios parte distali quam typo magis alata ; racemo multifloro ; 

 pedunculis quam iis typi brevioribus ; floribus majoribus ; calyce 

 extus griseo-lutescenti-serieeo ; petalis 5 oblongo-spathulatis; stami- 

 nibus 5 basi dilatatis. 



Hab. Uganda Protectorate. Toro, near Mpanga river, Bag- 



shatve, no. 1074 ! alt. 4000 ft. 



" Tree with white flowers in vertical inflorescences." Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Leaves 20-35 cm. long. Leaflets proximal + 5*5 cm. long, 

 distal ± 18 cm. long, ± 4 cm. broad. Calyx ± 8 mm. long. 

 Petals ± 17 mm. long, ± 4 mm. broad. Anthers ± 3-5 mm. 

 long. Stigma globose. 



** Leaves 7-10- jugate. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate acuminate, 



6-0-9-0 cm. long, 2-0-2-5 cm. broad. 



20. B. Engleriana Giirke in Bot. Jahrb. xiv. 307, t. v. (1891). 

 B. Engleri Giirke MS. ex Engler, Hochgebirgsflora, 293. 



Hab. East Africa. Fischer, no. 135. 



A specimen of a tree, 20 ft. high, collected by Scott Elliot on 

 the Nandi Hills, no. 7027, is clearly allied to the above, but differs 

 somewhat in the stipules. 



PL ANT AGO LANCEOLATA L. var. SPRMROSTACRYA Rohl. 



Recently in going over the proof-sheets of my History of the 

 Dillenian Herbaria my attention was again directed to the plantain 

 referred by Mr. C. E. Salmon, in his paper in this Journal (1906, 

 126), to the above name. This may, as Mr. Salmon suggests, be 

 the plant referred to by Linnseus {Species Plantarum, 114) as 

 4t ft Plantago trinervia, folio angustissimo Bauh. Pin. 189, prod. 

 98 " ; but is it the plant of Ray, with which Mr. Salmon also 

 identifies it, referred to in the Synopsis, ed. i. p. 126, n. 7 (1690), 

 as " Plantago an Alpina angustifolia J. B, ? Narrow-leaved Moun- 

 tain-Plantain. In rupibus Trigvylchau supra lacum Llyn Bochlyn 

 prope Ecclesiam S. Perisii. D. Lloyd M f I think not. 



Ray places the plant after P. maritima and P. Coronopus. Dr. 

 Richardson, who visited this spot with Lloyd, with whom he was 

 also in frequent correspondence, says, in a letter to Sherard dated 

 April 1st, 1726 (see Richardson, Correspondence, p. 239), M At the 



