Wahlenbergia.] | CAMPANULACE (Sond.) 581 
Var. 8. flowers larger. Camp. elongata, herb. Banks. 
Has, Cape of Good Hope. (Unknown to me.) 
Root cylindrical, whitish. Stems very numerous, 1, in var. 8. 14 foot high, often 
dichotomous. ‘Leaves nearly all at the base of the plant, obtuse or acute, 1-2 
inches long, 4-6 lines broad. Flowers very numerous, terminating the slender, 
naked pedicels. Tube of calyx scarcely 1 line long. Corolla at top about 4 lines 
broad. Capsule 2 lines long, glabrous, 3-valved. It is larger than W. androsacea, 
and differs by the diffuse branches, DC. According to the description it must be 
very near W, arenaria. 
36. W. arenaria (A. DC. ! Prodr. p. 436); stems simple or branched 
from the hairy base ; branches naked, dichotomous and glabrous above ; 
leaves rosulate or approximate at the base, obovate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, irregularly toothed, glabrous or hairy ; bracteze 
minute, acuminate; calyx glabrous, tube obovoid, about as long as 
the lobes; corolla infundibuliform, 5-fid, 2-3 times longer than the 
calyx ; capsule obovoid or subspherical, 3-celled. W.androsacea, E. Z.! 
23760. W. nudicaulis, H. Z.! 2375, Zey. 3138. 
Var, 8. Verreauxii ; corolla one half or twice longer than the calyx, W. Ver- 
yeaucit, A. DC.! 1l.c. W. semiglabra. DC. !1. ¢. p. 437. W. nudicaulis, EB. Z. ex pte. 
_ Var. y. sphaerocarpa ; plant dwarf ; corolla one half longer than the calyx ; cap- 
sule spherical. W. sphaerocarpa, A. DC.! 1c. 
Var. 5. lasiocarpa ; calyx tube and capsule ellipsoid, densely beset with short 
hairs ; corolla one half longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Has. Sandy places, var. a. B. ef y., near Capetown, in Zwartland, Caffraria, 
Namaqualand, and in the districts of Albany, Uitenhage, to Port Natal ; var. 6. in 
Namaqualand, Drege. Sept—Nov. (Herb. Hook, D., Sd.) 
Annual, 3 inches to 1 foot’and more high, variable in habit. Stem or branches 
erect, hairy at the lower part, rarely to the middle. Leaves in some specimens all 
rosulate, in others radical, and on the lower part of the stem 1-2, sometimes 3 
inches long, 3-4 lines broad, more or less petiolated, crenulate. dentate, rarely 
pinnatifid-toothed at the base, hairy on both sides, or glabrous above or quite gla- 
brous. Peduncle in the small specimen simple, few-fiowered, in the largest 4-5 
times forked ; pedicels filiform, 3-2 incheslong. Calyx 1-11 line long, lobes ovate 
acute or lanceolate-acuminate. Corolla blue, with ovate, acute lobes. Style with 
4 glands at the base of the stigma. Capsule 2-3 lines long, 14-2 lines broad, 
sometimes only 1 line long and broad, crowned by the erect calycine-lobes, which are 
generally very short in var. 8., a little longer in var. 5, as long as the capsule. The 
small specimens with rosulate leaves are scarcely to be distinguished from W. andro- 
sacea, DC., with which W. nudicaulis and W. arenaria perhaps must be united, 
87. W. dichotoma (A. DC.! Prodr. p. 437); stems many from the 
base, erect, dichotomous, glabrous, or a little hairy near the base, 
nearly naked; leaves approximate or subrosulate at the base, oblongo- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, or sublinear, shortly petiolate, denticulated, 
hairy; bractee minute, glabrous; peduncles dichotomous ; calyx gla- 
brous, tube obconical, as long as the erect linear lobes ; corolla 5-fid, 
4 times longer than the calyx ; capsule obconical, 3, rarely 2-celled. 
Pay 8. simplex ; stem simple, slender ; leaves densely hairy. W. parviflora, A. 
~ & 
Has. Hills near Ebenezar, Drege, 6285; var. 8. Bergriver, Drege, 6290. (Hb. Sd.) 
Root simple, several inches long. Stems 3-5 inches in var. B., to 1 foot high. 
Leaves 4-1 inch long, 1-3 lines wide, spreading-hairy. Peduncles 3-6 times dicho- 
tomous. Flowers very small. Calyx 1 line ; corolla 3 lines long, deeply 5-fid. 
Capsule 2 lines long ; valves obtuse, a little shorter than the calyx-lobes. Style, 
