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1. P. indicum, ZaiiB.— SpheDoclea Pbngatium, A. DC.—V-S' high, Jew-branched ; 

 leaves elliptical-lanceolate, qnite entire, petioled ; spikes cylindiical with a conical point, 

 2 long ; seeds minute, cylindrical, smooth : embryo aiile.— Hab. Trinidad I, £oc/eh., Cr., 

 in moist places and savannahs ; [Mexico to Brazil ! ; trop. Africa ! to Egypt ! ; East In- 

 dies !]. 



XCIX. PLANTAGINE^. 



Flowers apetalous, involucellate, mostly in spites. Stamens inserted into the scarious 

 calyx (usually called coraUa), rarely hypogynous. Stigma vvith collecting hairs. Ovaty su- 

 perior, 2(-4)-cellea, rarely simple. Mmhryo straight, included in albumen. — Herbs; leaves 

 erstipulate, -usuiMy rosulate at the base of a simple scape. , 



PLANTAGO, L. 



Calyx 4-fid, supported by a 4-leaTed involncel. Stamens 4(-2). Omry 2(-4)-celled : ovules 

 peltate. Capsule circumscissile. 



^ 1. P. major, L. Perennial ; leaves ovate, long-petioled, palmatinerved, nearly equal- 

 ling the scape; spike cylindrical; involucel-leaves equal, Ijlnnt; calyx-lobes spreading, 

 ovate or lanceolate; capsule-cells i-lZ-seeded : seeds convex on the placentar, flat on the 

 outer side. 



iS. tropica. Leaves dentate towards the base ; spike elongated, interrupted at the hase ; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, pointed ; c4psule 24-16-seeded. — P. major, i3 asiatica, Decaisne. P. 

 asiatica, L. sec. Decaisne {nan Ledeb.). 



Hab. i8. Jamaica!, Wullschl., Manchester; [S. Thomas I, Brazil ; East Indies to South- 

 ern China; u. and other forms in all continents]. 



2. P. virginica, L. Annual, hairy ; leaves spathnlate or obovate-oblong, 3-5-nerved, 

 remotely denticulate ; spike cylindrical, often interrupted at the base ; involacel-leaves une- 

 qual, 2 posterior roundish ; calyx-lobes erect in the fertile fliowers, lanceolate ; capsule-cells 

 l-seededi seeds concave on the placentar, convex on the outer side.— Scape 9''-2" high, 

 much longer than the leaves; flowers dimorphous, the fertile with included filaments. — 

 Hab. Jamaica I, Wils., in the mountains of S. Andrews, at 4000' alt. ; [Canada to Chiloe]. 



C. PLUMBAGINE^. 



Calyx mostly scarious. Stamens 5, hypogynous, bearing above their base a dorsal, peta- 

 liiie appendage, or surrounded by and opposite to the lobes of a crown (the coroUa). Ovary 

 simple : styles or style-branches 5 : ovnle single, hanging from a central cord. Mnbryo 

 mostly included in amylaceous albumen. — ^Leaves exstipulate, often rosulate. 



1. STATICE, L. 



Calyx 5(-10)-lobefl. Fetaline appendages usually distinct. Styles subdistinct, glabrous : 

 stigmas cylindrical. Pericarp membranaceous, indehiscent or circumsessile at the summit. 

 — ^Leaves usually rosulate ; Sowers ylomerate or single: the glomerules or flowers sitpported 

 by 3 distichous bracts, zisually in unilateral or distichous compound spikes. 



Sect. LiMONlUM, Boiss. — Fetaline appendages distinct nearly to the base, purple or blue. 

 Achenium irregularly rumpent at the base. 



1. S. bahamensis, 6r. («. sp.). Glabrous, rough with lepidote dots; leaves spathn- 

 late, tapering into the petiole, miicronate, early marcesceut ; scape much branched below : 

 most inferior branches sterile, at length angular : scales deltoid-subulate, rusty, white on 

 the margin ; glomerules 8-2-flowered, densely approximate, in unilateral, recurved, sub- 

 corymbose spikes : inferior bract ovate, blunt, rusty-coriaceous, with a white, membrana- 

 ceous margin, superior 2-3 times longer, oblong, blunt, herbaceous udth a broad, white, 

 membranaceous border ; calyx-tube pilose: lobes white, subdistant, deltoid; anther-cells 

 pointed at the diwe.— Habit and many characters of S. caspia, W, (bellidifolia Gouan, DCl), 



