Lightfootia. | CAMPANULACE (Sond.) 563 
Raceme 4-2 inches long, in large specimens panicled and then resembling in habit 
the inflorescence of Wahlenbergia adpressa; in very small specimens, as distributed by 
Drege (L. oxycoccoides, 6.), the branches are terminated by one or two flowers. 
Pedicels 1-2 lines ; var. e. often 3-4 lines long. Calyx with hemispherical tube 
and acuminate lobes 14-2 lines long. Segments of corolla linear or lanceolate, blue, 
glabrous, or shortly hairy. 
22. L. oppositifolia (A. DC. Monog. p. 115); branches erect or as- 
cending, slender, rigid, simple ; leaves opposite, spreading or reflexed, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, subdenticulated or entire, with thickish 
margins ; flowers few, usually terminal ; calyx glabrous, tube hemi- 
spherical ; lobes erect, lanceolate-acuminate, denticulate; corolla sub- 
5-partite, twice longer than the calyx. Prod. p. 419. H. & Z: 2362. P. 
lanceolata et L. muscosa, Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1, p.217. E. & Z. 
2361. L. oxycoccoides, var. Spreng. Syst. 1, p. 809. 
Has. Sandy places in the Cape flats, near Doornhoogde, and on the Table moun- 
tain, E.d4 Z. Dutoitskloof, Drege (A. DC.). Nov. (Herb. Reg. Berol., Sd.) 
Plant 4-1 foot, much branched ; branches reddish, filiform, glabrous or a little 
hairy. Leaves 3-4 lines long, } line broad, glabrous. Pedicels capillary, 1-3 at 
top of the branches, 2-6 lines long. Calyx 1 line long ; lobes longer than the tube. 
Drege’s specimen, 6314 in Herb. Sond., is not L. oppositifolia, but L. capillaris, 
Buek. == denticulata, Sd. 
23, L. rubioides, (A. DC. Monog. p. 116); branches procumbent 
diffuse ; leaves opposite, spreading or subreflexed, lanceolate, acute, 
remotely denticulated; flowers few, terminal, and axillary; tube of 
calyx hairy, spherical, lobes spreading, linear-lanceolate, remotely 
denticulate; corolla 5-parted, longer than the calycine lobes. Prodr. 
P. 419. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Herb. Banks. (Unknown to us.) 
Plant trailing, much branched ; branches divaricate, 3-4 inches long, a little 
hairy, reddish, more or less leafy. Leaves sessile, 2-4 lines long, scarcely 1 line 
broad, glabrous or furnished with a few white hairs. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels 
filiform, subpilose, 3~5 lines long. Tube of calyx about 1 line long ; lobes acute, 
14-2 lines long. Style a little longer than the corolla, thicker and 3-dentate at the 
top. Capsule spherical. 
§ 3. Capsule 2-celled, elongate-conical. (Sp. 24-25.) 
24, L. juncea (Sond.) ; stem and branches virgate, striate, herbace- 
ous, glabrous, hairy at the base ; lower leaves ovato-lanceolate, acute, 
erect, alternate, with revolute, incrassate, entire or denticulate margins, 
glabrous, sometimes hairy beneath ; upper ones distant, gradually 
smaller, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate ; flowers disposed in an elong- 
ate spike, solitary or ternate, sessile ; tube of calyx obconical, glabrous, 
longer than the triangular lobes; corolla deeply 5-fid; segments 3-4 
times longer than the calyx; capsule obconical ; valves equalling the 
calyx-lobes. Prismatocarpus junceus, Buek! in E.§& Z. Enum. 2400. 
Wahlenbergia spicata, E. Mey.! DC. Prod. p. 441. 
Has, Stony places and the Klipplaatriver, near Silo, Tambukiland, #.¢Z. Port 
Beaufort, Caffraria, Drege. Dec.—Jan. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.) 
Perennial, 1-14 foot high. Root woody, with many terete, pale green stems ; 
branches similar. Lower leaves approximate, 4~6 lines long, 2 lines broad ; the 
intermediate 1 line broad ; the uppermost 2-1 line long. Flowers in the axil of 
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