423 LXXX. CAMPANULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Pratia. 
or irregular, tubular, rotate or campanulate; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 
4-6, alternating with the corolla-lobes, inserted with the corolla on the margin 
of the epigynous disk (in Sphenoclea on the corolla-tube) ; anthers free or united 
in a tube. Ovary 2-5-celled ; placentas in the inner angle of the cell, many- 
ovuled. Style cylindric; stigma-lobes as many as ovary-cells. Fruit capsular, 
baceate or dry (in Sphenoclea spuriously cireumseiss). Seeds very many, small, 
ellipsoid, albuminous; embryo erect, radicle next the hilum.—Species 1000, 
scattered throughout the globe. 
TRIBE I. Lobeliese. Corolla 2-lipped, cleft dorsally to the base. Anthers 
connate. 
ZU Bo u EE Be er E m soo ee " " 
Capsule V-valvel al, fhe Wn. HN, 2s. GaN tw i> c. A DOE. 
Trise II. Campanulese. Corolla regular. Anthers free or imperfectly 
connate. 
* Capsule loculicidal within the calya-teeth. 
I 
Small herbs; corolla very small stellately 5-partite; capsule A. 
oM Loa ebrei uen E CAMISA 0 0040 
Corolla campanulate ; capsule altogether inferior, 3-3 in... 
Corolla tubular inflated upwards ; capsule with a conical superior 
NEN coe ul Had n. EORR re oi es 
Corolla eampanulate; capsule with a conical superior beak . 
Capsule consisting of the conical beak, enclosed in the calyx-tube 
. CEPHALOSTIGMA, 
. WAHLENBERGIA, 
Ha Co 
5. Leprocopon. 
6. Coponopsis, 
7. CYANANTHUS. 
** Fruit indehiscent or membranous, breaking up irregularly. 
Berry fleshy, crowned by a flat disk . 8, CAMPANUMJEA, 
Slender prostrate herb; flowers very small; fruit small inferior, 
en egenen Vo. 1-0. re . Cv IVED vbw: Ot Bios 
Leaves large succulent ; flowers 2-ranked in a dense scorpioid 
spike . . > + «` © 10. PENTAPHRAGMA. 
Flowers in a dense cylindric spike, capsule cireumseiss, , . . 11. SPHENOCLEA. 
*** Capsule dehiscent at the base or sides below the calyx-teeth. 
Corolla rotate, ovary 2-celled . . . . . . . . . . . .192. PuvrEUMA. 
Corolla campanulate rarely rotate, ovary 3—ó5-celled. . . . . 13. CAMPANULA. 
l. PRATIA, Gaud. 
Herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed. Peduncles axillary, l-flowered. € alyx 
inferior, limb 5-partite. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-partite, lower 3- 
lobed. Staminal tube free or nearly so; 2 lower anthers with 1 or more terminal 
bristles, 3 upper naked. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; placenta hemispheric ; stigma 
2-lobed or emarginate. Berry ellipsoid, crowned with the calyx-teeth, Seeds 
very many, minute.—Species 15, S. E. Asia, Australia, N. Zealand, and S. 
America. 
1. P. begonifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1373; small, creeping, rooting, 
Pan.” leaves petioled cordate-ovate. P. zeylanica, Hassk. Cat. Bogor. 100. 
. Nummularia, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 210. Lobelia N ummularia, 
Lamk. Dict. iii. 580. L. begoniwfolia, Wall. Cat. 1300; in As. Res. xiii. 971; 
in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 115. L. Horsfieldiana, Maiq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
ii. 577. Piddingtonia Nummularia, DC. Prodr. vii. 341; H. f. § T. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ii. 20. Rapuntium Nummularium, Presl Prodr. Lob. 30. 
Nat, Srxxrm, Buoran, Assam, Kuasa Mrs., and Prev, alt. 2-7000 ft., frequent, 
—Distriz. Malaya, S. China, 
