Sphenoclea. ] LXXV. CAMPANULACEX (HEMSLEY). 481 
1. S. zeylanica, Gertn. Fruct. i. p. 118, t. 24, fig. 5. An erect 
glabrous annual, 1-4 ft. high, with a stout fleshy slightly branched 
‘stem. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, from 1-6 in, 
long, according to the vigour of the plant. Flowers greenish yellow, 
about 2 lines in diameter, in dense bracteate spikes from 1-3 in. long 
—Wight Ill. t. 138. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter ; Cameroons River, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy. . 
Mozamb. Distr. Several places on the Zambesi, Kirk i 
Also common in marshy places in Tropical Asia and America. 
7, CAMPANULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 561. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, hemispherical, turbinate or ob- 
ovoid; limb deeply 5-lobed or partite, the sinuses furnished with 
flattened reflexed appendages or naked. Corolla campanulate, rarely 
fannel-shaped or nearly rotate, more or less deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 
free from the corolla ; filaments usually dilated at the base; anthers 
free, vary inferior, 3- or 5-celled; ovules numerous; stigma 3- or 
5-fid, lobes narrow. Capsule crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, 
dehiscing laterally between the ribs in separate valves.—Perennial or 
rarely annual herbs of various habit, foliage and inflorescence. Flowers 
usually blue, rarely violet, pink or white. 
A genus of more than 200 species, widely dispersed in the northern hemisphere, 
a eecially abundant in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. 
Owers dimorphic ; fertile ones very small, apetalous . . 1. C. dimorphantha. 
Flowers all petalous. int 
Stems erect, furrowed, with distant leaves . . . . . 2 6. Quartiniana. 
Stems ascending or procumbent, with crowded leaves’. . 3. C. rigidipila. 
1. G. dimorphantha, Schweinfurth Beitr. Fl. Zthiop. p. 140. 
An erect pubescent annual, 6-9 in. high, branching from the base. 
aves alternate, pubescent, crenulate-dentate, the lower ones ovate 
or obovate, spathulate, narrowed into a distinct petiole, about an inch 
long, the upper ones narrower, ovate-lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, ses- 
aie Flowers dimorphic ; fertile ones about a line long, ecg ee 
inal and axillary cymes, apetalous and almost or quite cree ; 
calyx pilose, lobes entire, lanceolate or linear subulate, inappendicu st ; 
Tile ones solitary and scattered along the simple stems, with aca 4 x 
8nd corolla nearly 6 lines long. Corolla pubescent on the Haren . 
lue, equalling the calyx. Anthers linear ; filaments not dilated at the 
code Capsule of the fertile flowers erect, 3- or rarely 4.celled, many- 
Awe, Zand. Nubia, near the village of Farek, Ehrenberg! 
he de oath Chicky f imens bearing only 
ferti] ° description is chiefly from Schweinfurth, the Kew specim 
me apetalous flowers, 
2. G. Quartiniana, Rich. Fl. Abyss. il. p- 5. Perennial, with an 
rect branching furrowed hispid stem, a foot or more high. Leaves 
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