PHANEROGAMS — PROFESSOK BAYLEY BALFOUR. 247 



var. pubescens, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xiii. (1883). 

 Pubescens noninoanum ramis folia majora gerentibus. 



Soeotra. On the Haghier hills. Schweinf. n. 578. 

 Distrib. Endemic. 



Order LVIII, PLANTAGINE^. 



A small order with representatives in every part of the globe, but most 

 abundant in temperate zones. 



PLANTAGO. 



Plantago, Linn. Gen. n. 142 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 1224. 

 A large genus with the distribution of the order. 



P. amplexicaulis, Cav. Ic. Ear. ii. 22, t. 125; Dene, in DC. Prod. xiii. 1, 

 719 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 883. 



P. Bauphula, Edgew. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vii. 2. (1838), 766 ; Dene. loc. cit. 

 P. salina, Dene. loc. cit. 720. 



Soeotra. Abundant on the plains. B.C.S. n. 200. 



Distrib. From the Canary islands through the Mediterranean region 

 eastwards to Arabia, Persia, Affghanistan, and southern India. 



GENUS ANOMALUM. 

 WELLSTEDIA. 



Wellstedia, Balf. fil. in Proc. Boy. Soc. Edin. xiii. (1883). 



Flores hermaphroditi, regulares. Calyx alte 4-partitus, persistens, tubo basi ovario adnato, lobis 

 angustis acutis sequalibus extus adpresse rigide pilosis. Corolla hypocrateriformis, tubo 

 cylindraceo extus intusque glabro sub fructu a basi sursum in segmenta 4 rumpente, limbi 

 lobis 4 ovatis v. deltoideo-ovatis sequalibus extus adpresse pilosis imbricatis. Stamina 4, 

 aequalia, angulis corollas loborum inserta, filamentis liberis subulatis incurvis corollas lobis 

 paulum brevioribus ; antheras cordato-rotundatas v. suborbiculares, 2-loculares, loculis 

 parallelis introrsis rima longitudinali, dorso affixse. Discus 0. Ovarium 2-carpellatum, 2- 

 loculare, compressum, integrum, parte triente inferum, inferne glabrum, superne basin styli 

 circum dense albido-setosum ; stylus validus, calycis lobis subaequilongus, adpresse rigide 

 pilosus, bifidus, stigmatibus parvis terminalibus ; ovula anatropa, in loculo quoque solitaria, 

 (plerumque in uno abortivum?), ab placentis sub apice septi medii affixis pendula, funiculo 

 brevi. Capsula oblique subobcordata, inasqualiter bilobata, complanata, bilocularia, loculo 

 majore vacuo, angustiseptata, loculicide dehiscentia, valvis coriaceis a septo crustaceo tenui 

 irninervio in loculum vacuum convexo semenque amplectente secedentibus, extus adpressis 

 rigidis pilis vestita. Semen solitarium, septo pendulum, complanatum, obliquum, superne 



