564 CAMPANULACEZ (Sond.) [ Microeodon. 
3 small bracts. Spike 1-2 inches long, remoti-flowered. Lobes of calyx acute, 
nearly 1 line long. Segments of corolla narrow, glabrous; stamens 5 ; anthers 
linear. Style with 2, rarely 3, linear, revolute stigmas. Capsule terete, 10-nerved, 
4 lines long. Seeds oblong, acute at both ends, sub-3-angular. 
25. L. laxiflora (Sond.) ; branches erect, virgate, striate, subsimple, 
glabrous; leaves alternate, distant, elongate-linear, narrow, quite entire, 
keeled by the middle nerve, glabrous ; upper ones smaller; flowers 
disposed in a lax, often unilateral raceme ; peduncles capillary, with 
2 subulate bracts in the middle; tube of calyx obconical, glabrous; 
lobes subulate, as long as the flowering tube; corolla deeply 5-fid, 3 
times longer than the calyx; capsule linear-obconical, terete; valves 3 
times shorter than the calyx lobes. 
Has, In Caffraria, Drege. Katberg, Eastern Frontier, #. Hutton. (Hb. D., Sd.) 
Well distinguished from Z. juncea by longer branches, narrower leaves, and pedun- 
culate flowers. Branches in the specimen 14 foot. Leaves {-1 inch long, 1 line 
broad. Raceme 4—8-flowered, 3-4 inches long. Lower peduncle 1 inch, the upper 
shorter. Lobes of calyx erect, ciliated at the base, 2-2} lines long. Segments of 
corolla lanceolate-linear. Base of filaments ciliated. Ovary 2-celled. Style with 
2 stigmas. Ripe capsule about half an inch long, striate. 
’ XI. MICROCODON, A. DC. 
Calyx 5-cleft, tube ovoid or spherical. Corolla 5-lobed at the apex, 
small, cylindrical. Stamens 5, free ; filaments very slender, not ex- 
panded at the base. Style filiform. Stigmas 5. Capsule 5-celled, half- 
superior, dehiscing by 5 valves at the apex; cells alternating with the 
calycine lobes, Seeds ovoid, small. Monog. camp. p. 127, t.19. DC. 
Prod, p. 421. Endl. Gen. 3078. Wahlenbergice, Spec. Thunb. 
Small, annual herbs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, sessile, small, narrow ; 
upper ones rather the longest. Flowers terminal, sessile or pedicellate. Tube of 
calyx hispid, rarely glabrous. Name from jixpos, small, and kwdwv, a bell; in 
reference to the shape and smallness of the flowers. 
Sect. 1. Eumtcrocopon. Ovary conical and free above. Capsule dehiscing by 
the elevated valves. 
Flowers solitary, on longish pedicels ser wes spe)” paue UURee ae) aenee 
Flowers subsessile, or shortly peduncled : 
Flowers glomerate, terminal 
(2) glomeratum. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves es (3) sparsiflorum. 
Sect. 2. CatorHeca. Ovary flat above, quite inferior. Capsule 
dehiscing by depressed valves ... ... ... 12. ces eee eee (4) hispidulum. 
Sect. 1. Evmicrocopoy, A. DC., Prod. (Sp. 1-3.) 
1. M, lineare (Buek! in E. & Z. enum. 2368); stem flexuous, erect, 
simple or branched above, terete, glabrous at the base ; leaves linear, 
acuminate, narrow, subdenticulate with cartilaginous margins ; flowers 
pedicellate, often subpanicled; tube of calyx hairy or glabrous, spheri- 
cal; lobes linear, nearly as long as the corolla ; capsule spherical, ob- 
tusely 5-angled, 3 times shorter than the calycine lobes, Campanula 
linearis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 140. Thunb. Mem. Arad. Petersb. 4, t. 5, f- 
3. Fl. Cap. p. 171. Wahlenbd. linearis, A. DC. ! Monog. p. 137. 
_ Var. 8, diffusa ; stem much branched ; branches diffuse. Wahlenb.diffusa, A .DC.1.c. 
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