Agauria.~\ 
ERICACEiE. 
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Bourbon, Camaroon Mountains. Bojer gives L. buxifolia, DC.loc. cit. (Andromeda 
buxifolia, Lam., Smith , Ic. ined. t. 59 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2660), as a Mauritian 
species. This has oblong leaves broadly rounded at the base, obtuse or slightly cuspi- 
date, pilose branches and pedicels and larger calyx (finally £ in. deep) ; but what we 
have from Mauritius under the name is only the broad-leaved form of A. salicifolia , 
our only specimens of the true plant being from Bourbon. 
Order LIX.* PLUMBAGINACEiE. 
Of the order Plumbaginacea , marked in regular pentamerous Mouope- 
talte by its 1-celled free ovary with 5 long filiform styles and single ovule 
pendulous from an erect long basal funiculus, we have two subspontane- 
ous species : 
Plumbago capensis, Thunb., Bot. Mag. t. 2100, Bot: Beg. t. 417, 
received from Mauritius from Mr. Telfair, a native of the Cape, a 
subscandent shrub with oblong-spathulate nearly sessile entire leaves, 
flowers in dense corymbose spikes, a tubular gland-ciliated calyx, and a 
hypocrateriform blue corolla with a tube about three times as long as 
the limb, and limb nearly an inch broad with obovate segments ; 
P. zeylanica, Linn., a native of Tropical Asia, found abundantly by 
Dr. Balfour in Bodriguez, with ovate-spathulate leaves, a more densely 
glandular-hispid calyx, and a white corolla with tube not more than 
twice as long as the calyx, and a limb not much over half an inch 
across. 
What “ P. auriculata, Lam. ? ” given by Bojer, Hort. Maur. 263, 
as wild on the crest of Montagne Longue, may be, I have no means of 
ascertaining. Lamarck’s auriculata is the same as capensis. 
Order LX. PLANT AGIN ACE AD. 
Blowers regular, in Mauritius hermaphrodite. Sepals 4, free, per- 
sistent, imbricated. Corolla-tube campanulate, with 4 spreading lobes. 
Stamens 4, exserted, epipetalous or hypogynous. Anthers 2-celled, 
versatile. Ovary superior, 1-4-celled ; ovules one or more ; style 
simple, pilose. Bruit dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds peltate, albu- 
minous. — Scapose annual or perennial herbs, with minute flowers 
in dense spikes or heads. Distrib. Species 50 ; principally temperate 
regions. 
1. PLANTAGO, Linn. 
Sepals 4, free, persistent. Corolla-tube campanulate., persistent, 
scariose, with 4 spreading lobes. Stamens inserted in the corolla-ti^be. 
Ovary 2-4 celled ; ovules one or more in a cell. Bruit a small mem- 
branous capsule with circumscissile dehiscence. — Annual or perennial 
herbs with a dense radical rosette of broad or narrow leaves, and small 
flowers in dense spikes. Distrib. All temperate and warm temperate 
regions. Species 50. 
Leaves broad. Ovules 4-8 in a cell 
Leaves narrow. Ovules solitary . . 
. . 1. P. MAJOR. 
. . 2, P. LANCEOLATA. 
