Tnghtfootia. | LXXV. CAMPANULACEZ (HEMSLEY). 477 
brous 14~-1# lines long. Capsule almost wholly inferior, hemispherical. 
—Description after De Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in marshy places which are inundated in the summer, 
Welwitsch ! 
12. L. Welwitschii, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, vi. p. 332. An 
annual with slender ascending stems 4-8 in., as well as the leaves gla- 
brous or with a few scattered hairs. Leaves alternate, distant, sessile, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, margin cartilaginous and re- 
motely toothed, from 2-4 lines long. Peduncles and pedicels very 
slender. Flowers terminating the branches and proceeding from the 
axils of the upper ones on pedicels } to 2 lines long, of a livid yellow 
colour. Calyx about 2 lines long ; tube very short and broad ; lobes 
entire sparsely ciliate, furnished with one or two hairs at the tip, 
margin fleshy, entire. Corolla 5-partite, lobes not exceeding the calyx. 
Ovary and capsule almost wholly superior.—Description after De 
Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, in humid sylvan meadows, Welwitsch! 
_ Avery singular plant, at first sight very different from any Campanulacee, espe- 
cially in the practically free ovary. 
5. WAHLENBERGIA, Schrad.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. p. 555. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-parted or very rarely with 
only 3 or 4 lobes. Corolla campanulate funnel-shaped tubular or 
almost rotate, slightly 5-lobed, or parted to the middle or sometimes 
deeper, very rarely with only 3 or 4 lobes. Stamens free from the 
corolla ; filaments usually dilated at the base ; anthers free. Ovary 
inferior or half-superior, 2—5-celled ; ovules numerous; stigma nar- 
rowly 2-5-fid. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally into as many valves as 
ere are cells, when there are 5 valves alternating with the calyx- 
obes.— Annual or perennial herbs of various habit, often woody at the 
Leaves alternate or rarely opposite. Flowers usually some 
shade of blue, variously arranged, nodding ; capsule erect. ee 
A genus of : ; ican, a few occurring in Tropica 
America and the Medio e ee yt one widely spread in Western Europe. 
srennials with ascending slender leafy stems, terminat- 
§ In long nak - red peduncles. . 
Capsule about 2 Times Tea ereth: Boalfsuperior, 3-celled 1. W. arguta. 
Capsule 5-7 lines long, wholly inferior, 2-celled. 
Nearly glabrous ; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate “he 2, W. silenoides. 
on ae . vate- 52 
“plcnously hispidly Pilose 5 calyx te io ° . . 8. W. Mannii. 
Perennial with short naked stems bearing rosettes of 4, W. pusilla 
leaves and almost sessile terminal flowers . 6 MR 
pa rarely exceeding 6 in. high. 
erfect stamens 3 or 4. 5. W. huillana. 
ves oblong or obovate-oblong . 6. W. Cervicina. 
P ‘ves linear-lanceolate . ee 
erfect stamens 5. 7. W. humilis. 
ves linear-lanceolate or subulate. . - + ° 
