706 cxiii. PLANTAGiNEiE. (J. D. Hookei'.) [Plantago. 



** Corolla glabrous. Capsule ^-celled, cells 1-2-seeded. 



2. P. lanceolata^ Linn. ; perennial, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate 

 entire or toothed 3-5-ribbed, axils woolly, scape long deeply furrowed, 

 spike very short. JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 881 ; J)on Prodi\ 77 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 245 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 714. P. attenuata. Wall, in Soxb. 

 Fl. Ind., Ed. Carey Sf Wall. i. 422, and Cat. 6413. 



Westekn HiMAliATA ; from Kashmir to Simla, Uoyle, Thomson, &c. Salt 

 range, Aitchison. Waziristau, alt. 5-8000 ft., Stewart. (Nbpal and Ceylon 

 introdaced.) — Disteib. Europe and N. Asia; introduced into many countries. 



Very variable in size. Mootstock tapering. Leaves 1-12 in. Scape as long or 

 longer. Spilce J-3 in., ovoid, subglobose or cylindric; bracts acuminate. Sepals 

 usually ciliate. Filaments long. Seeds oblong, concavo-convex, black. 



3. P. tibetica^ Serb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. l( T.; perennial, glabrous or 

 nearly so, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate entire or 

 toothed 5-ribbed, axils glabrous, scape grooved, spike slender. 



Westeen Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 4^11,000 ft., Stewart. Westben Tibet j 

 common, alt. 10-13,000 ft., Thomson, Henderson. 



Mootstock short, stout. Leaoes 2-4 in., variable in width, subacute. Scapes 

 glabrous or puberulous. Spikes 1-6 in. ; flowers very pale ; bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 equalling the calyx. Sepals broadly oblong, scarious, midrib green. Corolla very 

 small, lobes acute. Capsule twice as long as the calyx, very pale. — Some specimens 

 of apparently first year's plants from wet places have oblong membranous leaves 

 4 in. long or petioles as long, and very slender scapes and spikes. 



4. P. brachyphylla, Edgew. mss. ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 696; 

 perennial, glabrous, leaves elHptic-ovate subsessile or petioled 3-5-ribbed, 

 axils glabrous, scapes stout glabrous longer than the leaves and cylindric 

 spikes. P. gentianoides. Done. I. e. 721 (the Himalayan plant). 



Westeen Himalaya ; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Bdgeworth, 

 &c. Westeen Tibet, alt. 11-14,000 ft. ; 2%omso»s.— Disteib. Affghanistan. 



Much resembling a small state of P. major, but the seeds are 1-2 in each cell, 

 oblong and plano-convex. 



5. P. Stocksii, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 720, and Fl. Orient, iv. 

 882; annual or perennial, cobwebby or subsilky, leaves shortly petioled 

 lanceolate long-acuminate entire 3-nerved, scape slender longer than the 

 leaves, spike short and few-fid. or long with many distant flowers, corolla- 

 lobes acute. P. remotiflora, Stocks in Rook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 179. 



N.W. India; Waziristan, alt. 3-5000 ft., Stewart. — Disteib. Affghanistan 

 and Beluchistan, Persia. 



Root fusiform. Leaves 2—1 in. Spikes sometimes 5 in. long, at others only J in. : 

 bracts rather shorter than the calyx, obtuse, hairy or glabrate, margin membranous 

 back green. Sepals subsimilar, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Seeds large, narrowly oblong, 

 boat-shaped, black. — Waziristan is just beyond the British frontier, but as the species 

 will probably occur on this side of it, I have thought it right to introduce the 

 description, 



6. P. amplexicaulis, Cav. Ic. ii. 22, t. 125 ; annual or perennial, 

 stemless or subcaulescent, sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves long very nar- - 

 rowly lanceolate finely acuminate 5-nerved, base sheathing, scapes axillary 

 terete equalling or exceeding the leaves, spikes ovoid, corolla-lobes ovate 

 acute. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 883 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 719. P. 

 Bauphula, Edgew. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 285 (1840) ; Dene. I. c. P. salina, 

 Dene. I. c. 720. P. lagopoides, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 135, t. 39. 



