Microcodon.| CAMPANULACE (Sond.) 565 
Has. Sandy places near Heerenlogement, Ziunb. Near Waterfall, Tulbagh, 
£. § Z, Bergrivier, Drege. Oct.-Nov. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.) 
Stem 4-1 foot high, filiform, purplish, more or less dichotomously branched at 
the apex. Leaves glabrous or ciliate at the base, about 6-8 lines long, 4 line wide. 
Flowers white. Peduncles spreading, 4-1 inch long. Bractez leafy, linear. Corolla 
narrow. Capsule hispid or quite glabrous, the size of a small pea ; valves 1 line 
long, erect. : 
2. M. glomeratum (A. DC.! Monog. p. 127, t. 19); stem erect, sim- 
ple or branched; branches spreading, simple, hairy; leaves linear, acu- 
minated, hairy and ciliated ; flowers subsessile, glomerate, terminal ; 
bracteze leafy, longer than the flowers; tube of calyx ovoid, hispid ; 
lobes acuminate, long; capsule ovoid, terete, valves erect, twice shorter 
than their base. DC. Prod. p. 421. M. Candolleanum, Buck. 1. ¢. 2364, 
ex pte. Herb. Un. Itin. 149. 
Van. 8, brevibracteatum ; smaller; leaves rare ; flowers densely glomerate ; brac- 
teze as long as the flowers ; calyx-lobes shorter. M. brevibracteatum, Buek ! l. c. 2366. 
Var. y, pygmeum ; dwarf, 1 inch high, mostly simple, with 2-4 terminal flowers. 
M. nygmeum, Buek ! 1. e. 2365. 
Var. 5, singuliflorum ; flowers solitary or subsolitary. 
Has. Stony sandy places in the flats and mountains near Capetown. Driefontein, 
Zey. 1065. Var.y, near Waterfall, Tulbagh, #. 42. Oct.-Nov. (Hb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
2 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves alternate, or lower ones opposite, in small speci- 
mens 3-4 lines, in the largest 8-10 lines long, 1 line wide, minutely denticulated ; 
floral ones or bracteze 1 inch long, but in the varieties not exceeding the flowers. 
Flowers glomerate to a head, rarely solitary. Calyx-tube 1-1} line long, ovoid or 
subsphzroid ; lobes 2-3 times longer, or in var. 8 about as long as the tube, Corolla 
2-3 lines long. Capsule very hispid. Var. 8 resembles WM. lineare, but differs by 
more acuminate leaves and very hispid, terete, not obtusely-5-angular capsule. 
3. M. sparsiflorum (A. DC. Monog. p. 128); stem branched from 
the base; branches subdivided, hairy; leaves linear-lanceolate, ciliate, 
denticulated; flowers shortly peduncled, solitary in the axils of the 
upper leaves; tube of calyx spheroid, densely hairy ; lobes linear, long ; 
capsule spherical, valves erect. DC. Prod. p. 421. M. Candolleanum, 
Buck, 1. c. ex parte. Wahlenb. hispidula, Schrad. Campanula hispidula, 
Link. enum. p. 215. : 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. (Unknown to me.) 
Root annual, filiform. Stem erect, 2-3 inches high ; branches divergent, terete, 
hairy, often subdichotomously divided, alternate, lower ones opposite. Leaves 
opposite or alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 2-8 lines long, nearly 1 line wide, 
rather hairy, incrassate on the margins; upper ones rather longer. Flowers on 
rigid, 3-6-lines-long peduncles. Calyx 5-fid ; tube very hispid, 1 line long ; lobes 
spreading, acuminate, leafy, subdenticulate, 2 lines long. Corolla tubular, 24 lines 
long, 5-lobed at the apex, lobes erect, at length twisted. Style equalling the half 
corolla. Capsule 5-celled, } superior ; inferior part spherical, 14 line long ; valves 
the same length, opposite the calyx-lobes. I have not seen an authenticated speci- 
men; all I have found in several herbariums are not different from small specimens 
of M. hispidulum. Can it be the same ? 
Sect. 2. Catorneca, A. DC., Prod. (Sp. 4.) 
4, M. hispidulum (Sond.); stems much branched; branches diffuse, 
hispid, very leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, marginate, sub- 
denticulated, subciliated ; flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate, ter- 
