Plantago.~\ Lvm. tlantaginEjE. 227 
with broad, membranous margins. Capsule bursting across the middle. 
Seeds attached to either face of a free longitudinal septum, sessile, peltate. 
A large genus, found in all temperate and many tropical countries, including the Plantains 
and other common weeds. 
Scapes 1-3, rarely 4-5 -flowered. 
Small. Leaves villous at the base. Scape 1-flowered. Bracts and 
sepals acute 1. P. uniflora. 
Small. Leaves nearly glabrous. Scape 3-5-flowered. Bracts and 
sepals obtuse 2. P. Brown 'd. 
Small. Leaves very villous. Scape 2- or 3-flowered. Bracts and sepals 
subacute 3. P. lanigera. 
Scapes many-flowered. Flowers spiked. 
Spikes 2-1 in. long. Bracts and sepals pilose and ciliated . . . . 4. P. spathulata. 
Spikes f-f in. Scapes slender. Bracts and sepals glabrous . . . 5. P. Raoulii. 
Spikes 1-6 in. Scapes stout. Bracts and sepals glabrous . ... 6. P. Auck/andica. 
1. P. uniflora. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 207. Stems short, stout, \ in. 
high, tufted (?), villous at the crown. Leaves few, in. long, narrow- 
lanceolate, sinuate-toothed or quite entire, glabrous, villous at the base ; nerve 
1, obscure. Scape slender, as long as the leaves, 1-flowered, hairy. Sepals 
linear-oblong, acute, longer than the lower half of the capsule. 
Northern Island: top of the Ruahine range, Colenso. Very near P. Brownii, of which 
it may be a variety, but the leaves are narrower, scapes more slender, flowers solitary, and 
sepals narrower aud more acute. My specimens are indifferent and past flower. 
2. P. Brownii, Rapin. — P. carnosa, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 207. A small, 
tufted, rather fleshy species; root stout. Leaves very numerous, rosulate, lr-1 v,- 
in. long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, sinuate-toothed, glabrous or pi- 
lose, often villous at the base or in patches on the upper surface. Scapes stout, 
erect or prostrate, numerous, as long as or longer than the leaves, pilose, 3-5- 
flowered. Flowers in a small, dense head. Bracts and sepals broadly ob- 
long, obtuse, nearly glabrous, with fleshy keel. Capsule short ; cells 2-4- 
seeded. — FI. Antarct. i. 65, t. 43. 
Northern Island : summits of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Middle Island : 
hills and valleys, Hurumui, alt. 1200-1600 ft., Travers. Lord Auckland’s group : oil 
maritime rocks, common, J. I). H. Closely allied to the Antarctic American P. pauciflora. 
Lamb., but the habit is different. This is a common Tasmanian plant. The Auckland Island 
specimens have foliage nearly glabrous ; the Ruahine mountain ones present patches of vil- 
lous hairs on the upper surface of the leaves ; the Tasmanian individuals are intermediate in 
this respect ; Travers’s specimens are broader-leaved, and resemble small states of P. spathu- 
lata in foliage. This, like the P. i naritima aud P. Coronopus of Europe, inhabits both 
the monntain-tops and sea-level ; P. paradoxa. Hook, f., of Tasmania, is probably another 
state of it ; P. barbata, Forst., of Fuegia, is its American representative. 
3. P. lanigera, Hook. /., n. sp. Leaves densely rosulate, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, subacute, sessile, quite entire, 1 in. long, above densely woolly with 
matted, white, tortuous, jointed hairs, below glabrous or nearly so. Scapes 
short, inclined, tomentose, 1-3-flowered at the top. Bracts and sepals ovate- 
oblong, subacute. 
Middle Island : Otago, lake district, in rocky alpine places, alt. 6000 ft., Hector and 
Buchanan. The flowers are long past in my specimens, iu Buchanan’s drawing they are 
large, the corolla much exceeding the calyx. 
4. P. spathulata, Hook.f. FI. N. Z. i. 208. Glabrous or villous with 
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