556 CAMPANULACE (Sond.) [ Lightfootia: 
§ 2. Capsule 3-celled. (Sp. 2-23). 
2. L. albicaulis (Sond.) annual ; stems erect-spreading, white, gla- 
brous; leaves alternate, sessile, linear, narrow, spiny-toothed, recurved 
at the apex, greyish, hairy or nearly glabrous ; flowers sessile, solitary, 
or aggregated ; calyx tube hairy, shorter than the denticulated subulate 
lobes ; corolla 5-parted, longer than the calyx. Lobelia cinerea, Thunb.! 
Prodr. p. 40. Fl. Cap., p. 182. DC. Prodr. 7, 2, p. 385. Rapuntium 
cinereum, Presl, Prodr, Lob. p. 30. 
Has. Roggeveld, Thunbd.; Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Nov.-Dec. (Herb. Th., D.) 
Root fusiform, simple, white, 2-4 inches long. Stems many from the same root, 
erect or ascending, 1-3 inches long, terete, smooth, simple or a few branched. 
“Leaves 4-6 lines long, acute, with thickened margins, carinate above ; the teeth 
short but rigid. Calyx about 3 lines long, tube one-half shorter than the lobes. 
Corolla white, a little longer than the calyx lobes, §-fid, at length 5-parted, segments 
lanceolate. Ovary hairy, elliptical, stigma trifid. 
8. L. Namaquana (Sond); annual; stems erect, branched, white, 
terete, glabrous or shortly hairy ; leaves distant, alternate, spreading, 
linear, narrow, entire or obsoletely denticulate, canaliculateabove ; flowers 
solitary, pedicellate, disposed in a terminal, racemose panicle ; pedicels 
and calyx minutely downy ; tube of calyx hemispherical, equalling the 
linear, carinate, ciliolate lobes; corolla sub-5-parted, 3-4 times longer 
than the calyx; capsule 3-valved, valves as long as the reflexed calyx- 
lobes. 
Has. Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead (Herb. D.) 2 
Habit of LZ. denticulata. Root long, subsimple, white as the whole plant. Stems 
aspan high. Branches few, or very numerous ones in the axil of the leaves, bearing 
1 or 2 pedicellate flowers. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 4 line broad. Pedicels of the 
panicle 2-3 lines long. Calyx when in flower very small. Segments of corolla 
narrow, 3 lines long. Capsule hemispherical, with § prominent and 5 nearly obso- 
lete ribs ; the tube one half longer than the valves. ‘ 
4, L. Huttoni (Sond.); stem erect, glabrous or a little downy ; 
leaves numerous, erect, alternate, lanceolate, elongate, calloso-mucro- 
nate, flat, with thickened, entire or subdenticled margins, glabrous; 
flowers in dense terminal spikes; tube of calyx glabrous, a little shorter 
than the subulate lobes; corolla 5-parted, much longer than the calyx. 
Has. Kreili’s Country, Caffraria, H. Bowker; Katberg, Eastern Frontier, 1. 
Hutton. (Herb. D., Sd.) ; 
Stem 1 foot, stiff, simple, with some short branches in the upper part, closely leafy 
from the base. Leaves about one inch long, at the base 14-2 lines broad, the upper 
ones gradually smaller, glabrous or ciliated near the base, 1-nerved. Flowers 4-12, 
sessile at top, in the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx 3-4 lines long with 2 bracts 
at the base. Corolla with linear segments, longer the trifid stigma. 
5, L. fasciculata (A. DC. Monog, p. 112) stem erect, woody, branched, 
hairy; leaves numerous, alternate, reflexed, ovate, acute, thickish, re- 
motely denticulated, glabrous or hairy beneath; flowers in round fasci- 
cles at the top of the branches; tube of calyx nearly equalling the sub- 
ulate lobes; corolla 5-parted, hardly longer than the calyx, hairy. Cam- 
-panula fasciculata, Linn. Suppl. p. 139. Thunb.! Prodr. p. 39- Mem. 
Acad. Petersh. 4, 372, t.6,f.t. Roellareflena, Banks herb. L. oaycoccotdes, 
Litt. e. Dreg. ext, (fide DO. non in Herb, Sd.) : ae 
