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JOSEPH F. ROCK 
Plantago Fauriei Lev. Report sp. nov. Fedde 10:151. 191 1. 
Plant herbaceous, drooping, fibrillous; stem very short, about 5 cm., 
pubescent and with long straight hairs at the leaf scars; leaves narrow- 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, pubescent above with scattered hairs, more 
or less abruptly narrowing at the base into a short winged petiole 3 to 3.5 
cm. long, broadly subamplexicaul at the base, 7-nerved, the nerves covered 
with an ochraceous, matted, silky wool, especially in the young leaves; 
spikes less than twice the length of the leaves; peduncles about 7 to 8 cm. 
long, glabrous, loosely flowered, the ovate-sublanceolate bracts as long to 
twice as long as the corolla (11 mm.) ; sepals acute; flowers with long silky 
hairs at the base of insertion. 
Kauai: Hanalei, Mann & Brigham, 612, Gray Herb.; Hanalei et 
Hanapepe Waterfalls, Wawra, 2013a, 2013&, in herb. Vienna; Hanapepe 
falls, December, 1909, U. Faurie no. 1078 in herb. Leveille. 
A distinct variety, easily recognized by the long, subovate bracts and 
long acuminate leaves, whose veins are covered with densely matted, silky 
wool. It comes undoubtedly close to var. acaulis. Its stunted form is 
probably due to the habitat, as it enjoys the steep rock walls along waterfalls 
where it is exposed not only to the spray, but also to the force of the water 
itself. 
Wawra records a plant from the same locality, not exposed to the force 
of water, but as growing in the open places and there developing longer and 
thicker stems and broader leaves, which he refers to a forma erecta. To the 
writer's mind this procedure is not permissible, because the latter habit of 
the plant is due to location only. 
Plantago princeps var. acaulis Wawra, Flora 32: 564. 1874. 
Root-stock about 15 cm. long, nodose, stem wanting; leaves at the apex 
of the caudex, densely woolly in the axils or with long, silky hair, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 12 to 18 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, gradually 
narrowing at the base into a distinct petiole 3 to 6 cm. long, 7-nerved, pale 
below, darker above, the nerves prominent below with a dark brown 
pubescence, margins entire or minutely denticulate in the upper half; 
spikes I to 4, densely flowered, glabrous, about 25 cm. long including a 
peduncle of 14 cm. ; flowers hispid at the base or glabrous; bracts and calyx 
puberulous or glabrous; anthers oblong, apiculate, affixed at the middle to 
the very slender filaments, not exserted ; capsule and seed as in the foregoing. 
Oahu: on clay location, above Pali, Wawra, no. 1728a, in herb. Vienna. 
Koolau Mts., Punaluu, flowering, Dec. 24, 1908, Rock, no. 391 in the 
College of Hawaii Herb.; Koolau Mts., Punaluu, flowering and fruiting, 
June II, 1916, O. H. Swezey, no. 16,005 in the College of Hawaii Herb. 
This variety, while entirely stemless, seems to come close to PI. princeps 
var. Queleniana. It also occurs in the rain forests as does Gaudichaud's 
Queleniana. It is distinguished by the leaves, which are dark above and 
pale below, and by the prominent nerves, which are somewhat hispid. 
