574 _ CAMPANULACE® (Sond.) = [ Wahlenbergia. 
Has. Rocky places near Zilverfontein, 2000 ft.! Drege. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
The annual root, several inches, the stems or branches 3-1 inch long. Larger 
. leaves 3-6 lines long, 1-14 line wide, the petiole as long or somewhat longer ; 
upper or interior leaves smaller and narrower, sometimes nearly linear. Flowers 
3 lines long, lobes of corolla short, acute. All Drege’s specimens are in an insuffi- 
cient state. 
17. W. tenuis (A. DC. ! Prodr. p. 440) ; stems erect, as well as the 
filiform branches shortly hairy, leafy; leaves sessile, alternate or the 
lower ones opposite, linear-lanceolate or linear, entire, flat ; pedicels 
solitary, capillary, hairy, as long or somewhat longer than the leaf; 
calyx tube obconical, hispid, shorter than the linear-acuminate, hairy 
lobes ; corolla infundibuliform, 5-lobed at the apex, 3-4 times longer 
than the calycine lobes ; ovary 3-celled. ~ 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege, 6293. (Herb. Sd.) 
A small annual, with elongate, simple roots. Stems 4-6 inches long, the middle 
erect, lateral ones ascending ; branches short. Leaves scattered from the base to 
the apex, nearly glabrous, 4-6 lines long, 7-1 line wide. Pedicels 3-4 lines long, 
sub-terminal on the upper branches. Calyx 1 line long. Corolla blue. Style with 
3-linear, revolute stigmas. Ripe capsules are wanting. I examined 7 flowers, but 
never found a 2-lobed stigma, as indicated by Decandolle. 
18. W. ramulosa (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege); stem erect, much 
branched, branches terete, filiform, minutely downy at the base, gla- 
brous and dichotomous at the apex ; leaves sessile, linear, acute, with 
revolute margins, entire or subdenticulated, the lowest opposite ; pedi- 
cels of the dichotomous panicle capillary, much longer than the oppo- 
site bractea ; calyx glabrous, 5—costate, hemispherical or acute at the 
base ; lobes subulate, as long as the tube; corolla 3-4 times longer 
than the calyx ; capsule roundish, 5-costate. DC. Prodr. p. 432. 
Has. Between Bergrivier and Nieuwekloof, and on Piquetberg, Drege ; Hassa- 
quaskloof and on Breederiviersport, Zey. 3141; Steendaal, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe. 
Oct.-Nov. (Herb. Sd., Hook, D.) 
Annual, 3-4 inches high, very slender. Leaves in some specimens 2~3. in others 
3-4 lines long, $-line wide, glabrous or minutely rough. Pedicels 4-12 lines long, 
glabrous. Calyx in flower 1 line long. Corolla 5-lobed at the apex, 2-3 lines long. 
Capsule 1 line long, with filiform, erect calyx lobes, a little longer than the valves. 
19. W. Banksiana (A. DC. Monog., p. 154) ; stem erect, paniculate, 
glabrous; leaves erect, linear, very narrow, remotely denticulated ; 
panicle spreading; pedicels erect-spreading, 2-3 times longer than the 
bractea ; calyx glabrous; tube hemispherical, nearly as long as the 
linear lobes ; corolla infundibuliform, 5-lobed at the apex, twice longer 
than the calyx; capsule hemispherical. DC. Prod. p. 430. Camp. 
capillacea. Herb. Holm. ex pte. 
Var. B.? Zey. ; stem leafless above the middle; panicle few-flowered ; calyx 
lobes ciliate. z 
Has. Cape. Thunberg, Wahlberg. Van. 8. Crocodile River, Burke § Zey., 1079- 
Noy. (Herb. Holm., Sd., Hook.) 
Perennial? 4-1 foot high. Stems several from the simple root ; branched from 
the middle. Leaves alternate, erect or subappressed, 3-4 lines long, scarcely 4 line 
wide, acute or acuminate. Panicle ending each of the branches, racemose, 6-12- 
flowered. Pedicels 2-6 lines long. Flowering calyx 14-2 lines long. Corolla 3 
lines long, with short, acute lobes. Capsule §-costate, 1 line long; the valves 
