Pratia. | LXXX. CAMPANULACEXZ. (C. D. Clarke.) 423 
Leaves 1-3 in. diam., dentieulate. Peduncles 3-13 in., distant, none from the upper 
axils. Calyz-teeth } in., linear. Corolla green with pink marks. Anthers 5, nearly 
black; 2 surmounted by 1 bristle each, 3 puberulous. Berry j in., shortly ellipsoid, 
finally smooth, black. Seeds compressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 
2. P. montana, Hassk. Cat. Bogor. 106; glabrous, branches long, leaves 
petioled lanceolate tapering at both ends. Lobelia montana, Aeinw.; Blume 
Bijd. 728; DC. Prodr. vii. 386. Speirema montanum, H. ZS T. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ii. 27. Piddingtonia patens and montana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 
573. 
TEMPERATE HiMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft.; from Nipal to Mishmi, common. UPPER 
Assam; Patkoy Mts., Griffith —Drsrrm. Java. 
A tall, rambling herb. Leaves 4} by lj in., finely serrate. Pedwneles 1-2 in., 
often 1 from every axil, nearly to the ends of the branches. Calyx-teeth i-i in, linear. 
Corolla green with purple marks, hairy within. Anthers 5, yellow; 2 surmounted by 
several bristles, 3 puberulous. Berry 3-4 in., globose, black-purple, Seeds com- 
pressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 
2, LOBELIA, Linn. 
Herbs, often tall, or (non-Indian species) shrubs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 
rarely subentire. Peduncles axillary, l-flowered, sometimes subracemose. 
Calyx superior, limb 5-partite. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-partite, 
lower 9-lobed. Staminal tube free or nearly so; anthers tipped with bristles, 3 
upper naked. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; placentæ hemispheric; ovules nume- 
rous; stigma shortly bifid. Capsule loculicidally 9-valved within the calyx- 
teeth. Seeds very many, minute, ellipsoid, compressed or trigonous.— Species 
200, rare in Europe and W. Asia. f 
L. chenopodifolia, Wall. Cat, 1812 (Z. Cliffortiana, Linn. Hort. Cliff. t. 2^; DC. 
Prodr. vii. 372), cultivated from Roxburgh's time in the Caleutta Botanic Garden, is 
not indigenous in India. 
Secr. I. Holopogon, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 552 (char. narrowed to the 
Indian species). Small herbs. Leaves j-1j in. Corolla small; lobes unequal. 
Anthers all barbate on the apex nearly equally. 
t Seeds distinctly trigonous. 
l. L. trigona, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 506 ; glabrous, leaves ovate subsessile, 
pedicels mostly longer than the leaves. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 859 ; Wight Ic. t. 1170; 
H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 27, partly; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 133, excl. 
syn. L. triangulata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16. L. stipularis, Roth Nov. Sp. 144 ; 
Wall. Cat. 1309, L. gratioloides, Rovb.; A. DC. l e. 387. Lobelia sp., Griff. 
Notul. iv. 281. 
The Deccan and Cresto, alt. 0-6000 ft., common. Assam, Simons, BENGAL ; 
Dacca, Clarke. Mercur, Griffith, n. 429. Preu, M ‘Lelland. 
Annual; branches 6-12 in., ascending, rooting only near the base, more or less 
3-angled. Leaves 1-3 in. diam., denticulate. Corolla 3-} in. Capsule à by à in, 
ellipsoid, not tapering acutely to the pedicel. Seeds ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, 
distinctly trigonous.—Roth says that his L. stipularis was Heyne’s L, zeylanica, of 
- which the authentic examples, both at Kew and the British Museum, are L. trigona ; 
and Wallich (Cat. 1309) agrees. But Roth's description of L. stipularis fits the Ceylon 
plant called below L. zeylanica, var. Walkeri; and it is quite possible that Heyne may 
have sent this to Roth. Benth. (Fl. Hongk. 196) unites with Z. trigona (doubtingly) 
L. chinensis, Lour., which is its nearest ally, but has narrower Jeaves and more divari- 
eate branches. à 
