534 CAMPANULACEZ (Sond.) [ Monopsis. 
the terminal, obtuse lobe; pedicels 2-3 times longer than the leaf, 
naked; calyx-tube subturbinate, lobes ovate, acute; corolla 3 times 
longer than the calyx-lobes. Rapuntium pygmaeum, Presl.! excl. syn. 
E. Z.! n. 2486. 
Has. Top of Table Mt., Z. § Z., Drege, Pappe, W.H.H. Dec.—Jan. (Herb. D.,Sd.) 
Stems 1-4 inches long. Leaves 2-3 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, or smaller, on 
very short, broad petioles. Peduncles erect. Calyx-lobes longer than the very 
short tube. Corolla 1} line long, white; in one specimen they appear blue, lobes 
ovate-lanceolate, the 2 upper a little narrower, nearly free. Anthers glabrous or 
hairy on back, the lower setaceous or bearded at top. It varies with more fleshy 
leaves, of which the upper are entire. 
Ill. MONOPSIS, Salish. 
' Calyx-tube obconical or hemispherical ; lobes equal, linear, acute. 
Corolla funnel-, or salver-shaped, with a tube cleft the whole length; 
limb rotate, 5-lobed, lobes equal, roundish, Anthers all bearded. 
Stigmas 2. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 2, p. 37. A. DC. Prodr. 7, p. 35%: 
Lobelice spec. Linn. et Thunb. 
Small annual herbs with diffuse branches, linear-lanceolate leaves, very long, 
axillary, 1-flowered, naked peduncles, and showy deep blue flowers with yellow 
anthers. Name from povos, one, and ois, a face, in reference to the regular, not 
bilabiate flowers. 
Cal. tube obconical ; capsule acute or tapering at base... ... (1) debilis. 
Cal. tube hemispherical ; caps. roundish... ... ... ... ... (2) campanulata. 
1. M. debilis (Presl! Prod. Lob. p. 11); branches diffuse ; leaves 
linear, acute, remotely serrate, subpilose or glabrous; pedicels erect 
or ascending, 2-4 times longer than the leaf; calyx-tube obconical, 
lobes linear-acuminate; tube of corolla a little longer than the calyx, 
with roundish, mucronulate lobes; capsule a little curved, acute or 
attenuate at the base. Comm. pl. Dreg. p. 284. E.& Z.n. 2452. 
Deless. Icon. 5,v. t. 7. Lobelia debilis, Linn. fil.! Suppl. p. 395. L. Erinus, 
Thunb.! fol. 8. et y. fl. Cap. p. 179, ex. pte. L. debilis, Thunb. in Herb. 
Holm, non in Herb. Thunb. Zey. n. 1052-3114. 
Var, 8. conspicua; smaller ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate ; tube of calyx 
shortly obconical ; corolla often larger. M. conspicua, Salisb. l. c. p. 40. t. 2. Presl. 
Lc. p. 10, BE. § Z.n. 2451. M. Speculum A. DC.! Lob. Speculum Andr. Bot. Rep. 
t. 644. Sims Bot. Mag. t. 1499. L. simplex Thumb.! Prod. p. 39. A. DC. Prodr. 
p. 371. Rap. simplex Presl. prodr. Lob.p. 17. Lob. campanulata, Lam. dict. 3. p. 588. 
Zey. M. 1054, 1056. 
Has. Moist places in the distr. of Cape, Stellenbosch and Worcester, var. 8. near 
Capetown, Klypfontein, Brackfontein, etc. also near Magalisherg, Sept. Nov. 
(Herb. Thunb., Holm., Hook., D., Sd.) 
Very variable in size, from 2 inches to 1 foot, leafy, commonly branched from 
the base, the branches filiform or capillary. Leaves entire at the base, 6-12 lines 
long, 4-1 line wide. Peduncles 1~2} inches long. Corolla 4-6 lines long, lobes 
rotate. Capsule subincurved or horizontal, in var. a., 2-4 lines long, evidently 10 
nerved, in var, 8. usually shorter, 1-3 lines long, hispid or adpressed hairy, some- 
times quite glabrous. The calyx-lobes are erect or spreading in the same specimen. 
2. M. campanulata (Sond.); stem branched, glabrous; leaves lin- 
ear-lanceolate orlanceolate, remotely serrate, with cattilaginous margins ; 
pedicels erect, subpilose, 2-4-times longer than the leaf; calyx-tube 
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