530 CAMPANULACE (Sond.) 
Root leaves 3-4 in. long, 4-1 in. wide, much attenuate at base. Stem 1-2 ft. 
high or more, simple for 7 its length. ‘‘ Used by the natives about Port Natal 
in treating snake-bites. They scarify the bitten limb and rub in the powder into 
the cuts, and give the patient a strong hot decoction of the roots to drink. It is 
also given to cattle, with success in cases of internal inflammation.” Dr. Callaway, 
in litt. to D. Hanbury. 8. may be a distinct species, but the specimens seen are in 
imperfect condition. 
_ 2 H. polyodon (Fries, Epicr. Hier. p. 67); stem nearly nude, scape- 
like, striate, glabrous below, above flocculent and rough with rigid, 
subulate, short bristles, few-headed ; radical leaves rosulate, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous, toothed, the teeth reversed, subruncinate ; 
pedicels and involucres glandularly setose, the scales in few rows, 
linear, obtuse, dark-coloured, with pale, membr. margins ; achenes 
columnar ; papp. dirty whitish. : 
Has. Cape, Eklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
Leaves 4-5 in. long, $-} in. wide. Stem 12-15 in. high, in the specimens seen 2 
headed. Very distinct in aspect and pubescence from H, Capense. 
CLIV. ANISORAMPHUS, DC. =” 
Heads many-fl. Inv. calyculate-imbricate, the scales broadly linear, 
the outer about 2-ranked, short, inner sub-biseriate, elongate. Recept. 
nude. Achenes oblong, (immature only seen) compressed, striate, ros- 
trate ; the beak of the outer ones short, of the inner longer. Pappus 
pilose, multiseriate, yellowish. DC. Prodr. 7,.p. 251. 
‘A small plant with the aspect of a Hieracium or Hypo 
cylindrical. Radical leaves oblong, subattenuate at base, subret 'y toothed, 
glabrous ; the cauline very few, linear, ang ey ‘Stem near! ee sulcate <a 
at i ab about 3-headed, hairy with black, rigi 
glabrous at base, sparingly — oa ith smiles bristles. FL yellow.” Do.Lc. 
is. Root thick, 
Has. Windvogelberg, in rocky and stony places, 4-so00f. Drege. (Unknown 
to us.) * 
Orpen LXXVII. CAMPANULACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. Sonper:) . 
Calyx mostly 5-lobed (varying from 3 to 10-lobed), rarely truncate, 
“se adhering to the ovary, or partially or wholly free ; lobes equal or unequal. 
Corolla monopetalous, rarely cleft nearly to the base or polypetalous, 
regular or irregular, the lobes valvate or induplicate in sstivation. 
_ Stam. as many as the lobes of the corolla, alternate with them, epigy- 
- nous, free from the corolla, very rarely inserted on its tube; jilaments 
expanded at base; anth. 2-celled, splitting longitudinally. Ovary 
inferior (or half-inferior, rarely superior), 2-3—5-6-8-10-celled ; ovules 
many or few, rarely definite or solitary; style simple. Fruit a capsule 
or berry; rarely a drupe or nut. Seeds albuminous; embryo straight. 
_ Herbaceous, rarely shrubby or arborescent plants, often with milky acrid juice. 
‘Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, mostly toothed, sometimes lobed or much cut, 
