Cephalostigma.]  LXxv. CAMPANULACEE (HEMSLEY). 473 
reduced to minute bracts; midrib prominent. Flowers minute, very 
numerous, on filiform pedicels 4-8 lines long. Calyx less than one 
line long, lobes equalling the tube, triangular, with a raised margin 
and midrib. Petals about a line long, linear or slightly oblanceolate. 
Capsule glabrous, hemispherical or obconical, crowned with the persis- 
tent calyx-lobes, obscurely 5-ribbed.—C. Perrottetii, Hook. fil. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vii. p. 204, not of A. DC. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, 7,000 ft., Mann! 
This differs so much, not only in size, from the authentic specimens of C. Perrot- 
tetit that it has been considered necessary to give it specific rank here, though it is 
possible that more complete material may lead to all the African forms being united 
under one species extending both to Asia and America. 
4. G. Prieurei, A. DC. Prodr. vii. p. 420. A dwarf glabrous 
herb, 3-4. in. high ; stem hard and woody and naked at the base, 
branching upwards ; branches very slender, many-flowered. Radical 
leaves not seen ; cauline alternate, sessile at the base of the branches, 
linear, 2-3 lines long, entire, with a white undulate margin, glabrous ; 
upper ones very small, subulate. Flowers minute, very numerous, pa- 
niculate ; peduncles often dichotomous; pedicels filiform, 4 lines long. 
Calyx-lobes subulate, half a line long. Petals linear, scarcely twice as 
long as the calyx-lobes. Capsule obconical, 5-ribbed, about a line long. 
—Description from De Candolle. 
Upper Guinea. Leprieur § Perrottet. 
b The description martooe wean varticalars with C. ramosissimum, but the glabrous 
ranches and leaves and subulate calyx-lobes are points of difference. 
4. LIGHTFOOTTIA, Lher. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 555. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, hemispherical turbinate more 
rarely obconical ; lobes persistent. Corolla deeply 5-lobed or almost 
to the base. Stamens free from the corolla, filaments dilated at 
re base, anthers free. Ovary inferior half inferior or nearly superior, 
+>-celled ; placentas stipitate, usually with few ovules; stigma 2-5- 
Obed. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally at the top into as many valves 
48 there are cells.—Undershrubs or annual biennial or perennial herbs, 
with alternate, rarely opposite or fasciculate, usually small narow rigid 
entire or toothed leaves and very small blue white or pink variously 
arranged flowers, 
Madagaass genus of about 40 species, chiefly extratropical, one — 
Ovary and capsule inferior or half inferior. 
ndershrubs ; ovary 3-celled. 
ves lanceolate or oblong. j 
Flowers snbspicate ; calyx pilose . ere . - viyesinica. 
lowers cymose paniculate; calyx glabrous . - oe L. tenuifolia. 
Bi Ves linear-subulate crowded . . - - +e 
"ennials with fusiform roots and a capitulate inflores- 
St ia, Tg 3-celled. snes tocla 
em 1-14 ft. high ; lower cauline leaves 4-8 lines long, - 
narrowed into a petiole . . . + + + + * * 4. L. collomioides. 
