the flower appears to have five round openings at the margin 

 of the tube. Neftaryhve. roundifh membranous ciliated fcales, 

 to the points of which the filaments are attached. Stamens five, 

 of very fhort duration, filaments thread-like, anthers linear, 

 pollen verdigrife-green. Ovary five-celled ; ilyle erect, 

 ftigma five-cleft: fegments petal-like, ovate, patent, deep blue, 

 hifpid underneath. Capfule erecl, hifpid, obfoSetely ten-angled, 

 inferior, crowned with the perfiftent fegments of the calyx, 

 above which the capfule riles in a conical form confiding of 

 five lanceolate valves, which feparate, when the feed is ripe, 

 down to the calyx. Thus the feed is difcharged at the apex 

 of the capfule, and not, as ufual in the genus Campanula, by 

 lateral pores. Seeds, flat, mining, many. 



The different conftruclion of the organs of fructification 

 in this plant, perhaps may be thought l'ufficient to feparate 

 it from the genus Campanula ; but as there can be no doubt 

 of its being the fame as that figured by Commelin, and re- 

 ferred to by LinnvEus, we leave it as we found it. 



It frequently happens that the ftamens in this genus are of 

 very tranfient duration ; this is fo remarkably the cafe in this 

 fpccies, that if not examined before or immediately after the 

 opening of the flower, they will not be found; and the under 

 furface of the ftigma being at this time loaded with pollen, 

 may very eafily be taken for five anthers attached to the ftigma. 

 And we were actually deceived by this appearance, in the 

 firft fpecimen we examined, which had but one flower, in 

 which there was no other fign of filament or anther. The 

 flowers vary confiderably in lize, and under fome circumftances 

 are never expanded, but ripe feed will neverthelefs be pro- 

 duced. 



We were favoured with fpecimens of this plant from MefTrs. 

 Napier and Chandler, Wandfworth-Road, who raifed it 

 both laft year and the prefent from feeds imported from the 

 Cape. 



