708 cxiii.' PLANTAGINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Flantago. 



flexnons glabrous or puberulous, leaves filiform, margins revolute, peduncles 

 in the upper axils, spikes ovoid or subglobose puberulous, bracts all longer 

 than tbe calyx, lower eqaalling the spike, corolla lobes finely acuminate. 

 Dene, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 735 ; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 891. Plantago, 

 Griff. It. Notes, 214, n. 84, and Notulce, iv. 213 ; and Ic. Fl. Asiat. 

 t. 462. 



Nobth-West India; Sot/le (raised from seed bought in Bazaar).,— Distbie. 

 Affghanistan, Egypt. 



This is, I think, a form of F. Fsyllium, or of F. striata, Schousb. Eoyle's only 

 specimen is very small, 6 in. high and slender, but Grriffith's from Affghanistan 

 is a foot high with a very robust stem. — Boissier doubtfully refers P. indica, L., 

 to this. 



Obdeb, cxiv. nvctagxnes:. 



Herbs, slirubs or trees. Leaves usually opposite, quite entire, exstipu- 

 late. Inflorescence various, flowers often involucrate. Perianth petaloid, 

 monopetalous ; tube persistent, enveloping tbe fruit ; limb 3-5-lobed, plaited 

 in bud. Stamens 8-30, hypogynous, sometimes unilateral, filaments usually 

 unequal, inflexed in bud ; anthers didymous. Ovary free, 1-celled ; style 

 involute in bud, stigma simple or multifid; ovule 1, erect. Fruit 

 membranous, enclosed in the hardened perianth-tube. Seed erect, testa 

 adherent, albumen floury or soft; embryo curved, coiled or with folded 

 cotyledons, radicle inferior. — Genera 23, species 215, chiefly tropical 

 American. 



Teibe I. SKlrabiliese. Fmhryo hooked, radicle long. 



"mers involucrate 1. Oxtbaphtts. 



wers not involucrate 2. Boereaavta. 



Tkibb II. Fisonieae. Fmbryo straight, radicle short. 



3. PlSONIA. , 



1. OXVBAPKTTS, Tahl. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite. Involucre 1-5-fld. Perianth-tube short, limb 

 deciduous. Stamens 2-5, filaments connate below. Fruit small. — Species 

 about 20, all but the following American. 



O. himalaicus, ISdgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 87 ; glandular-pubes- 

 cent, viscid, leaves petioled ovate or ovate -cordate, flowers solitary in each 

 involucre. Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 430. 



Westeen Himaiata ; from Kulu to Gurwhal, alt. 6-9000 ft., Bdgeworih, &c. 



Stem 2-4 ft., branched, terete, brittle. Leaves 2-3 by 1^-2^^ in., acute, ciliolate; 

 petiole J-1 in. Mowers panicled, involucre J in., campanulate, 5-toothed, viscid. 

 Ferianth included, rosy, contracted above the ovary, limb spreading. Stamens 4, 

 included. Fruit I in. long, ellipsoid or ovoid, rough, black. 



2. BOERKAAVIA, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers minute or small, panicled nmbeUed 

 or capitate, jointed on the pedicel ; bracteoles small, rarely forming a minute 

 involucre. Perianth-tube long or short; limb funnel-shaped, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 1-5, asserted. Ovary oblique, stipitate, stigma peltate. Fruit 

 small, glandular. Cotyledons broad, thin, enclosing a soft scanty albumen. 

 — Species 30, tropical and subtropical. 



