Plantago. | PLANTAGINACEAE, 85] 
#** Scapes few-flowered. Plants small; leaves 4-2 in. long. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely abe Scape 1—8- 
flowered. Calyx-segments obtuse, glabrous. Capsule 8-seeded.. 4. P. Brownit. 
Leaves oblong-spathulate, densely clothed with tortuous w oolly Haire 
Scape 1-5-flowered. Calyx-segments subacute. © epee 12-15- 
seeded .. + 
Leaves linear or lanceolate, densely villous at the base. Scape l- 
flowered. Calyx-segments very minute, obtuse. Corolla-lobes 
and stamens often 3. Capsule 20-30-seeded .. 6. P. triandra. 
Leaves thick and fleshy, ovate-spathulate to lanceolate- spathulate. 
Scape 1-flowered. Corolla-lobes and stamens 4. Ca psule 10-20- 
or 
P. lanigera. 
seeded .. 4 .. 7, P. Masonae. 
Leaves linear- lanceolate, villous at the base. ‘Scape 1-flowered. 
Calyx-segments acute, more than } as long as the capsule .. 8. P. uniflora. 
1, P. aucklandica Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 64, t. 42.— Rhizome 
stout, often as thick as the thumb, 3-4 in. long, sometimes elongated above 
the ground, rarely branched at the top. Leaves ail radical, densely crowded, 
2-4in. long, elliptic-obovate to obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
oradually narrowed into a short broad petiole, glabrous, fleshy, 7-10-nerved, 
remotely and obscurely USC ae petioles villous at the very base 
with long soft brown hairs. Scapes numerous, stout, pilose or pubescent, 
much longer than the leaves. Spikes 2-6 in. long; flowers small, sessile, 
densely packed above the middle of the spike, laxly placed towards the 
base. Bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, glabrous, rather shorter than 
the calyx ; corolla-lobes elliptic- oblong, acute, patent or reflexed. Capsule 
ovoid, about twice as long as the calyx, 2-seeded. — Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 228. 
AUCKLAND IsuaAnps: Not uncommon on the hills, alt. L000 ft., Sir J. D. Hooker, 
T. Kirk! F. R. Chapman! B.C. Aston! J. 8. Tennant / 
A very distinct species, with something of the habit of the European P. media Linn. 
Sir J. D. Hooker says that it is remarkable for its numerous leaves, which are generally 
quite smooth and fleshy, often forming a dense head, not unlike that of a small cabbage. 
In the smocthness, thick and succulent habit, and stout column it bears some affinity 
to the caulescent species of Juan Fernandez and other insular situations. 
2. P. Raoulii Decne. in DC. Prodr. xiii, 1 (1852) 703.—-Rootstock short, 
stout. Leaves numerous, all radical, erect or rosulate, 2-10in. long, 
oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, subacute, narrowed into a rather 
long broad petiole, irregularly sinuate-toothed or quite entire, 3-5-nerved, 
more or less pilose or almost hispid; petioles villous at the base with 
long brown silky hairs. Scapes longer than the leaves, ae or many, slender, 
strict, pilose, terminating in a rather dense spike 4-1 in. long. Bracts 
orbicular, obtuse, glabrous, broadly margined. Calyx: -segments broadly 
ovate, with a thick fleshy keel and broad membranous margins, olabrous. 
Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, lobes very small. Capsule twice 
as long as the calyx, conic, acute; seeds usually 4.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. 1 (1853) 208; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 228; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 507; JU. N.Z. Fl. ui (1914) t. 163. P. varia A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 370 (not of R. Br.); Raoul Choix (1846) 44. P. dasyphylla Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv (1892) 393. 
NortH anp Sours Isntanps, Srewart Isranp: Common throughout, on most 
banks, &c. Sea-level to 3500 ft. Flowers throughout the spring and summer. 
Very closely allied to the Australian P. varia, which has become sparingly 
naturalized in the Dominion, but the spike is shorter and more glabrous, and the 
flowers are smaller. 
