480 LXXV. CAMPANULACEZ (HEMSLEY). _ [ Wahlenbergia. 
what longer. Corolla-lobes half as long again as the calyx. Capsule 
obovoid.—Description after De Candolle. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet. 
Perhaps only a dwarf state of W. riparia. 
8. W. inhambanensis, KI. in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 303. An 
erect slender branching glabrous annual. Branches very slender ani 
finely grooved, spreading. Leaves membranous, oblong, somewhat © 
obtuse, sinuate-dentate, much attenuated at the base, 1-2 in. long by 
14-4 lines broad. Inflorescence once or twice dichotomously branched ; 
flowers on filiform pedicels 14 in. long, subtended by subulate bracts 
1} lines long. Calyx campanulate, 5-ribbed ; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, 
erect, equalling the tube ; corolla funnel-shaped, 4 lines long and 0 
lines in diameter, deeply 5-partite. Capsule turbinate, 5-ribbed, many- 
seeded.—Description chiefly from Klotzsch. 
Mozamb. Distr. Inhambane, Peters! 
9. W. riparia, A. DC. Prodr. vii. p. 435. An erect, unbranched or 
slightly branched, hispidly pilose annual, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous of 
glabrescent in the upper part. Leaves sessile from obovate-lanceolate 
and obtuse to linear-lanceolate acute, 1-24 in. long, lower ones es 
pecially hispidly pilose, margin white, cartilaginous, conspicuously 
undulate-dentate or almost entire. Peduncles dichotomous, long an 
slender, furnished with small bracts. Calyx glabrous, tube twice as 
long as the erect thick lobes. Corolla about 2 lines long and twice 
the length of the calyx-lobes. Capsule wholly inferior, 3-celled, ob- 
ovoid, including the calyx-lobes 4—5 lines long. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Lepriewr and Perrottet ! Nupe, Barter! 
10. W. etbaica, Vatke in Linnea, xxxviii. p. 700. An annual 
with an almost unbranched stem, leafy and hispid in the lower half, 
leafless and glabrous above, about 10 in. high. Leaves alternate, ses- 
sile, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, about 2 in. long by 9 lines 
broad, the upper ones acute, hispid along the midrib on the undef 
surface, margin irregularly undulate-crenate ciliate. Flowers sm@ 
white terminal and lateral distant. Calyx-tube glabrons, the elon- 
gated slender lobes scarcely as long as the tube, lanceolate acute 
entire.—Description after Vatke. 
Nile Land. Soturba, Schweinfurth. 
6. SPHENOCLEA, Gertn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 560. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, hemispherical ; limb 5-partite, 
lobes rounded, imbricate. Corolla campanulate, 3-lobed, valvate. 
Stamens free from the corolla or only slightly attached to its base ; 
tilaments dilated at the base; anthers short, free. Ovary half-inferior, 
2-celled ; placentas stipitate ; ovules numerous. Style short ; sigma . 
length shortly bifid. Capsule depressed, globose, dehiscing trans- 
versely, operculum carrying away the calyx-lobes. Seeds numerous, 
very small, 
. The genus is limited to the species described below. 
