470 LXXV. CAMPANULACEA (HEMSLEY). [ Lobelia. 
in racemes of flowers. Radical leaves petiolate rotundate entire, about 
3 or 4 lines in diameter, passing gradually into sessile linear-oblong 
distantly and callously serrate cauline ones an inch or more long, and 
in the upper part into bracts. Flowers 6-8 lines long, on slender 
pedicels about an inch long. Calyx glabrous, the linear-lanceolate lobes 
less than a third as long as the corolla-tube. Upper anthers glabrous at 
the back, lower two bearded at the tip. 
South Central. Island at Victoria Falls, Dr. Kirk! . 
The above description applies only to the Tropical African plant, which appears 
to differ only from the Natal specimens in the upper anthers being glabrous on the 
back. 
17. % lavendulacea, KI. in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 302. An 
erect densely branched annual 1-14 ft. high, with slender twiggy 
slightly scabrous angular branches. Leaves glaucous linear obtuse nar- 
rowed at the base, with a few distant sinuous teeth, the lower ones 
2 in. long by 2 lines broad, the upper ones bract-like and much smaller. 
Flowers numerous at the ends of the branches and solitary in the 
axils of the leaves or bracts, on slender compressed peduncles about 
half an inch long. Calyx slightly scabrous, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 
1 line long. Corolla blue, less than half an inch long, the upper lobes 
linear acute hairy on the inside, the lower lobes ovate acute glabrous. 
Upper anthers glabrescent, lower ones bearded at the tip. Capsule 
glabrous, 10-ribbed.—The description chiefly from Klotzsch. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Peters ! . 
Sonder ( Flora capensis, iii. p. 546) refers this to his var. y. secundata of L. sir! 
quetra, Linn., to which species it may belong, but it has a very different aspect, 40 
the material is insufficient to determine the question. , 
18. %. stelarioides, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. ii. pars ii. p. 353. 
A much-branched annual or perennial. Stems weak slender angular, 
more or less clothed with recurved prickly bristles, 1-2 ft. high. 
Leaves opposite, or the upper ones alternate, sessile or narrowed into 
short petiole, linear-lanceolate oblong or ovate oblong, 1-1} in. long, 
obtuse or acute, mucronate, more or less scabrous especially on the mar- 
gin and midrib, distantly dentate-serrulate or almost crenate-serrulate 
and constricted where the teeth occur ; teeth mucronate or terminating 
in a hard white incurved callus. Flowers axillary, solitary, borne 0” 
slender scabrous peduncles longer than the leaves and growing out after 
the flowers have withered. Calyx-lobes scabrous linear-oblong mucronl- 
late spreading about half as long as the corolla, but growing out cons} 
derably as the fruit matures. Corolla about half an inch long, yellow ™ 
the Abyssinian specimens (Schimper). All the anthers bearded at the 
tip. Capsule oblong, nearly smooth, about 3 lines long.—Dobrowshia 
stellarioides, Presl, Prodr. Lob. p. 10; DC. Prodr. viie p. 356 5 Paras- 
tranthus stellarioides, Vatke, in Linnea xxxviii. p- 717. 
Wile Land. Ankobar, Abyssinia, Monastery of Thecla Haimanot, Dr. Roth! 
Tigré, Schimper ! 
This species also occurs at Natal, where it has blue flowers. 
