578 CAMPANULACEE (Sond.) _—[ Wahlenbergia. 
the calyx, 5-lobed at the apex; capsule hemispherical, Z. & Z. 2386. 
Campanula capillacea, Thunb.! Prod. p. 38, Mem. Acad. Petersh. T, IV. 
p. 306, t. 5, f. 4, Fl. Cap. p. 170, excl. syn., Willd. 
Has. Stony places amongst grasses on the Van Stadesmountains, Uitenhage, 
Zaureberge, and near Grahamstown, Albany, #. § Z., Dreye, Sir C. Bunbury, 
Miss Bowker, Zey. 3144. May-Jul. (Herb. Thunb. ! Holm., Hook., D., Sd.) 
A perennial herb (Zey.), 1-14 foot. Leaves approximate on the lower and the 
middle part of the stems, not at the base, 3-6 lines long, nearly terete, incurved or 
a little hooked at the apex, with many smaller ones in the axils ; glabrous, rarely 
pubescent. Racemose panicle 2-4 inches long. Flowers 4 inch long, blue. Cap- 
sule 1 line long, crowned by erect calycine lobes. 
29. W. denudata (A. DC. Monog. p. 147); quite glabrous; branches 
ascendent, slender, few-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate, with undu- 
lated, whitish, nearly entire margins ; peduncles elongated, nearly naked ; 
tube of calyx obconical, elongate ; lobes linear-acuminate, entire, gla- 
brous, as long as the tube; capsule elongated, pyriform, 3-celled. DC. 
Prod. p. 435. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Burchell, 2769. (Unknown to me.) 
Habit of W. Capensis, perhaps annual. Stem 1 foot high, leafy at the base. 
Leaves nearly as in W. lobelioides, 6 lines long, 1 line broad, greyish green, with 
white edges. Flower solitary, terminal, with a small axillary alabastrum in the 
specimen collected by Burchell. Calyx-tube in flower about 2 lines long, the lobes 
2-3 lines long, with revolute margins. Corolla unknown. Capsule 4 lines long, 
scarcely 1} line broad, probably 3-valved, Seems only a variety of W. cernua. 
30. W. Meyeri (DC. Prod. p. 439); glabrous, hairy below ; stem 
branched from the base ; branches as well as the stem erect, naked, 
dichotomous ; leaves aggregate or subrosulate at the base, obovate or 
obverse-lanceolate, acute, with undulate whitish margins, membrana- 
ceous; bractez linear-acuminate, minute, entire ; peduncles dichoto- 
mous, capillary; tube of calyx obovoid, as long as the ovate acute lobes; 
corolla infundibuliform, 5-lobed at the apex, 3 times longer than the 
calyx-lobes ; capsule obovoid, 2-celled. W. cernua, E. Meyer in Herb. 
Drege, non. A. DC. 
Has. Rocks on the Kamiesbergen near Leliefontein, Ezelskop and Roodeberg, 
3-5000 ft. Drege, Nov. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A very slender annual, with the habit of W. androsacea. Stem filiform, 3-1 foot 
high ; branches generally smaller, the outer ascendent. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 3-5 
lines wide, ciliate, hairy at the angustate base, on the surfaces with few white hairs ; 
bractez about 1 line long. Pedicels at flowering time 1-3 lines, fruit bearing 4-6 
lines long. Calyx not 1 line, corolla 2-24 lines long. Capsule striate, 1 line long, 
terminated by the very minute calyx-teeth, 
31. W. cernua (A. DC. Monog. p. 148); branched from the hairy 
base, glabrous above; branches erect, slender; leaves irregularly toothed ; 
lower ones opposite, obovate or ovate-obtuse, middle ones alternate, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, angustate at the base ; bracteze minute, linear ; 
—— simple or dichotomous ; tube of calyx glabrous, obovoid, as 
ong as the lanceolate, ciliolate lobes ; corolla infundibuliform, sub-5- 
fid, 3 times longer than the calyx ; capsule obovoid, 3-celled. Cam- 
panula cernua, Thunb.! Prod. p. 39. Mem. Acad. Petersb. t. 4, p. 374+ +- 
7,f-1. Herb, Un. Itin. 148, Sieb. cap. 243. E. § Z. 2372. W. gracilis, E. 
Mey. in Herb. Drege,non A. DO. Zeyh. 1074, 3136, 3139- 
