538 : CAMPANULACE (Sond.) ~ | Lobelia. 
pendulous, 3-fid. Anthers cohering, the 2 lower ones or sometimes all 
bearded. Ovary inferior or half-superior. Capsule 2-celled, 2 valved, 
many seeded, dehiscing at the apex. Lobelic spec. Linn. sp. p. 1317, 
non Presl. Rapuntium Tourn. Presl, prod. Lob. p. 11, excl. Sect. 1. A. 
DC. in DC. Prod. 7, 2, p. 35, f. Endl. gen. n. 3058. 
Erect or procumbent herbs or sub-shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers Leper 2 
_ usually disposed in termina] leafy spikes or racemes, rarely solitary and 
blue, white, violaceous or red. Named in honour of Matthew Lobel, author of various 
botanical works. 
Sect. 1. All the anthers bearded. (Sp. 1-15.) 
Cal.-tube acute at base, turbinate or linear-obconic: 
Leaves cordate or ovate: 
Lys. cordate-orbicular, obtuse and lobed... (1) Preslii. 
Lys. ovate, — subserrate ; raceme terminal; 
pubescent (2) Zeyheri. 
Lys. ovate or " sub-cordate, mucronate, toothed ; 
pedicels axillary ; glabrous .. ere tee a 
Leaves linear or subulate : 
Lvs. linear-subulate, keeled, ciliate at base; ped. 
and cal. woolly... (4) spartioides. 
Lys. linear, glabr. ; pedicels glabr. ; S “cal. appressed 
(5) linearis. 
Cal.-tube obtuse at base, ‘ovoid or hemispherical : 
Herbaceous: 
Leaves linear or setaceous: 
Pubescent scabrous. Pedicels sub-solitary, 
_ ped. as long as bracts ... ee ... (7) setacea, 
St. angular; lvs. setaceous ; raceme 
branched at base ; ped. shorter than the 
bracts (8) capillifolia, 
Stem and branches glabr. “Lys. ciliate ; raceme 
loose, secund; ped. and cal. hispid ... ... (9) lasiantha. 
Leaves petioled, ovate or obovate : 
St. and branches glabrous. Leaves ovate, 
acute... -. (14) patula. 
St. and branches. hairy. Leaves obovate, “obtuse (t5) 
Suffruticose, somewhat woody: 
Leaves ovate or sblecn obtuse, entire or bluntly 
toothed; plant hairy ... . . (to) hirsuta. 
Lys. linear, keeled, entire, rigid; . pedunc. few-fl., 
terminal = oe (EE) i 
Lys. linear, with 2-4 plunt teeth, tomentose... (12) tomentosa. 
Lys. lanceolate, toothed or ‘Pinnatifid, sepsis or 
glabrous... eae" ae . (13) coronopifolia. 
Sect. 2, The lower anthers alone bearded or tipped with bristles. 
(Sp. 16-26.) 
Leaves all radical, ry (obovate); spike racemose ... (26) eyphioides. 
Leaves scattered along the stem and branches : 
Stem terete or subangular (not compressed or winged) : 
Leaves entire or toothed (not lobed) : 
Prostrate, erring: with mucus sie 
flowers ... ... (20) Boivini. 
