546 | CAMPANULACE (Sond.) | Lobelia. 
wide, equal in length to the petiole; stem leaves 4-10 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, 
with 6-8 short teeth above the middle, obtuse, sessile or narrowed into a petiole ; 
upper leaves and bractea 4 lines long, 1 line wide. Calyx at flowering time 1 line 
long ; lobes acute. Corolla blue ; lobes of the lower lip oblong. Capsule obconical. 
19. L. triquetra (Linn. Mant. p. 120); glabrous or subpilose at the 
base; stem erect, as well as the branches smooth, obsoletely trigonous, - 
very leafy, but naked above; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, coarsely 
and unequally dentate ; raceme coarctate, terminal ; pedicels twice 
longer than the lanceolate bractea; tube of calyx obconical, as long as 
the linear lobes; corolla 3 times longer than the calycine lobes, gla- 
brous ; capsule ovoid, elongate. Lhunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 184. L. capitata, 
Burm. Prod. 25. L. heteromalla, Schrad.! Hort. Goett. Herb. Un. tin. 
482, 483. Rapunt. heteromallum et triquetrum, Presl! 1. ¢. p. 15, 16. 
E. Z, 2467, 2468. 
Var. 6. comosa (A. DC.! Prod. p. 370); leaves linear; spike oblong, leafy ; 
bractez about as long as the flowers. ZL. comosa, L. spec. p. 1323. 
Var. y. secundata ; leaves remotely dentate, glabrous or ciliolate ; raceme elon- 
gate, subunilateral. ZL. acutangulum, Presl, prod. p.16. Lob. lavandulacea, K lotesch! 
an Peters Mozamb. 
Has. Cape flats and mountains near Capetown, Muysenberg, Piquetberg, Hex- 
“river, Klynriviersberg and Babylonsehetoornberg, Zeyh. 3100. Var. . in the Cape 
flats, Zeyh. 1053. Nov.—Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Hook., D., Sd.) 
Annual, 1-2 feet high, erect or decumbent at the base, simple or few-branched 
above. Leaves alternate, sessile, toothed, sometimes subpinnatif.-dentate ; teeth 
acute, 1 inch or more long, 1-2 lines wide. Flowers forming a coarctate, fastigiate 
raceme. Var. y, elongate, 4-9 inches long. Corolla small, blue. Anthers hirsute 
on the back, the 2 lower bearded. Capsule 4 lines long, 10-ribbed. 
20. L. Boivini (Sond.) ; stems prostrate, elongate, sometimes root- 
ing, hairy ; branches filiform ; leaves shortly petiolate, oval, elliptical 
or suborbicular, bluntish, denticulate, hairy and ciliate or subglabrous; 
peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 3-4 times longer than the leaf; calyx- 
tube obconical; lobes lanceolate or ovate, acute, longer than the tube, 
one-half shorter or nearly as long as the corolla. “ 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Boivin, 624. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A very distinct species, by the creeping stems, the habit of Veronica agrestis, and 
the variable size of calyx-lobes. Root annual. Stems 1 ft. and more long; branches 
shorter. ‘Leaves 3-5 lines long, 3-4 lines wide, obtuse, crenate ; upper sometimes 
oblong. Peduncles 1 inch and more long, hairy or glabrous. Calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late-subulate, 14 line long, and ovate, 2-3 lines long, 1 line wide in the same branch. 
Corolla blue ; tube pale or whitish. Anthers hairy, the 2 lower bearded. 
21. L. pubescens (Ait. H. Kew, ed.1,v.3, p. 498); stem and branches 
angular, pubescent or subhirsute, or the branches glabrous above ; leaves 
petiolate, ovate, acute or subcordate, dentato-serrate ; upper ones sessile, 
ovato-lanceolate and lanceolate, serrate or entire; flowers racemose ; 
pedicels 2-3 times longer than leaf; tube of calyx ovoil, obconical, as 
long or shorter than the linear-subulate lobes; corolla 3 times longer 
than the calycine lobes. 
_ Var. a, Thunbergiana ; hirsute or villous ; lower leaves larger, subcordate, round 
ish, on shins petioles ; flowers was ties L. pubescens, Thunb. ! Fl, Cap. p. 181. 
L. cuneifolia, Link. § Otto! Abbild. h. Berol.t. 39. DC. Prod. p.37°. Rapuntium 
ovatum, Prest! Prod. p.16. E. § Z. 2469. 
