Wahlenbergia.| § LXXV. CAMPANULACE® (HEMSLEY). 479 
4. W. pusilla, Hochst. in Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 2. A ceespitose 
dwarf herb, only a few inches high ; branches procumbent, naked at the 
base, with rosettes of small leaves at the ends, from the centre of 
which spring the almost sessile flowers. Leaves oblong-spathulate 
obtuse or acute entire or more or less conspicuously dentate-crenate, 
3-6 lines long, sparsely pilose and ciliate when young. Flowers very 
small, scarcely 2 lines long, apparently solitary at the ends of the 
branches and almost concealed by the leaves. Calyx-tube obconical, 
naked, lobes lanceolate acute entire glabrous. Corolla oblong-cam- 
panulate about twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Capsule globose 
gebrous 3-celled.—Description of the flower and capsule from 
ichard. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia (Mount Bachit), Schimper ! 
5. W. huillana, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, vi. p. 333, An 
annual with several slender ascending branching stems from 3-6 in. 
Leaves alternate sessile oblong or obovate-oblong entire or obscurely 
and distantly toothed, often obtuse, sparsely hairy or glabrous, 2-4 
lines long. Flowers bluish white, for the greater part trimerous or 
tetramerous, opposite the leaves, on erect pedicels primarily less than 
half a line long, but which lengthen out to nearly 2 lines as the cap- 
sule approaches maturity. Calyx about 2 lines long; tube glabrous 
acute at the base almost ribless; lobes 4 oblong one much smaller 
than the others or altogether wanting, the lateral ones furnished with 
1 or 2 teeth. Corolla usually shorter, 4- or 3-fid ; tnbe cylindrical ; lobes 
ovate. Stamens 3 (? always).—Description after De Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in marshy woods, Welwitsch! 
Var. B, pusilla, A. DC. 1. ¢., much smaller (about 2 lines tall, “ 4-5 mill. alta”). Stem 
Sometimes simple and exceedingly slender, otherwise in foliage and flowers as in the 
Species, 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in elevated pastures of Espalanca, Welwitsch ! 
_ 6. W. Gervicina, A. DO. Prodr. vii. p. 440. A dwarf branching 
Pilose annual, 2 or 3 in. high. Leaves alternate sessile linear-lanceo- 
late, less than 4 in. long obscurely denticulate. Flowers very small, 
Te on short peduncles opposite the leaves. Calyx-tube pilose ovoid ; 
obes 3 or 4 linear-lanceolate obscurely toothed. Corolla 3- or 4-lobed 
slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens 3. Capsule 2-celled.— 
ervicina, campanuloides, Delile Fl. d’Egypt. p. 7, t. 5, fig. 2. Wahlen- 
ergia campanulvides, Vatke, in Linnea xxxviii. p. 700.—Deseription 
after De Candolle. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur and Perrottet. 
t also occurs in Egypt. 
_ 7. W. humilis, A. DO. Prodr. vii. p. 434. A dwarf annual, 3-6 
in. high, with a simple erect mbranched or slightly branched aie 
Pilose at the base, glabrous upwards. Leaves crowded sc Ae the 
of the stem, lower ones linear-lanceolate, pilose, obscurely ates 
palate, margin undulate white, upper ones subulate. | Peduncles dicho- 
tomons, Calyx glabrous tube narrow ovoid, lobes linear erect some- 
