428 LXXX. CAMPANULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Lobelia. 
often 15 ft. long, ending in a dense hairy spike, usually simple, though sometimes 
divided. The leaves are thicker, more villous than those of L. nicotianefolia, the 
corolla often very hairy without. The milk of both species is intensely acrid, 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
16. L. ? Puuira, A. DC. Prodr. vii. 360; founded entirely on Burm. Fl. Ind. 186, 
t. 60, fig. 3, a small Lobelia-like plant, from Coromandel, but with opposite lanceolate 
leaves. 
9. CEPHALOSTIGMA, 4. DC. 
Small, erect, branched herbs, sparsely patently hairy. Leaves alternate, 
subsessile, margin thickened entire waved or crisped, Flowers small, racemed 
or panicled; upper bracts often very small and pedicels filiform. Calyx 
superior; limb ó-partite, Corolla deeply 5-fid; segments linear-lanceolate, 
spreading stellately, blue or whitish. Ovary subglobose, 2-3-celled. Style 
cylindric; stigma shortly obtusely 3-lobed. Capsule loculicidally 2-5-valved 
within the persistent calyx-teeth. Seeds very many, small, ellipsoid, compressed 
or trigonous.—Species 9, 5 Indian, 3 Tropical African, 1 Brazilian. 
* Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, not trigonous. 
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1. C. Schimperi, Hochst.; A. Rich. FI. Abyss. ii. 2; stem erect with 
numerous horizontal branches above, leaves oblong and elliptic acute margins 
undulate crisped recurved. C. hirsutum, H. f. A T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 9, 
partly ; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 193; Vatke in Linnea, xxxviii. (1874), 699 ; 
Hemsl, in Oliver Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 472, not of Edgew. Wahlenbergia peroti- 
folia, W. & A. Prodr. 405 ; A. DC. Prodr. vii, 434 ; Wight Ic. t. 842. Dentella 
erecta, Roth Nov. Sp. 140. 
Throughout the Deccan ; from Ceylon to Rajpootana and Chota Nagpore ` common, 
Kuasia and JAiNTEA ; alt. 2-5000 ft., common. Cryton.—-Distrrin. E. Africa, 
Erect 4-16 in., patently pilose, the main stem simple nearly to the top of the 
plant. Leaves 3 by ZA in., narrowed at both ends, subsessile, sparsely patently 
pilose or glabrescent. Pedicels 1-3 in., rarely longer. Calyx-tuhe patently pilose, 
lobes jy in., linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla } in., blucish. Capsule 3; in. 
diam., subglobose or obovoid. Seeds much longer than bread. 
2. C. flexuosum, JI f. § T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 9; stem erect 
flexuose repeatedly dichotomous with ascending branches, leaves sessile ovate 
and elliptic narrowed at both ends subobtuse thin. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
133. 
Maranan; Coucan, Dalzell, Stocks. Bababoodun hills, Law. 
Very closely allied to C. Schimperi, but instead of the rigid erisped habit, it is 
flexuose with thin leaves and much longer capillary pedicels, as though it were C. 
Schimperi growing in a moist shady place; calyx-tecth larger, 1-3 in. 
** Seeds trigonous. 
3. C. paniculatum, 4. DC. Prodr. vii. 421 ; stem repeatedly dividing 
upwards, leaves oblong narrowed at both ends, panicles loose, pedicels capillary 
calyx glabrous, teeth linear. JZ. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ài. 9; Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 210. Campanula paniculata, Wall. Cat. 1295 A. B. 
Bırma ; Prome, Wallich. 
Siem 15 in. sparsely pubescent. Leaves 2 by $ in., sessile, obscurely crenate, 
nearly glabrous. Panicle nearly naked; upper bracts linear, minute. Calyx-teeth 
din. Corolla $-} in., bright blue. Capsule à in. shortly obconie, valves forming 
a cone as long as the inferior portion of the capsule. Seeds lanceolate-ellipsoid, 
distinctly trigonous. 
