584 CAMPANULACEZ (Sond.) [Leptocodon. 
upper leaves scattered, gradually smaller. Panicle sometimes 1 foot or more long, 
branches spreading or divaricate, glabrous ; pedicels 2-4 lines long. Calyx 1 line 
long ; corolla 3-4 lines long, with lanceolate lobes, Capsule 1 line long; valves 
equalling the erect, rigid calycine-lobes. Seeds ovoid. This species connects the 
genera Wahlenbergia, and Lightfootia ; the habit is that of the last, but the corolla 
and ovoid seeds belong to Wahlenbergia. 
45. W. robusta (Sond.); shrubby, glabrous, branches woody, dif- 
fuse, rigid, terete, sub-spinescent ; leaves fasciculate or solitary, very 
shortly petiolate, oblong, attenuate at the base, obtuse or mucronulate, 
quite entire, marginated; flowers in the axil of the leaves, solitary, 
rarely geminate or ternate ; pedicels shorter than the leaf, tube of 
calyx hemispherical, lobes subulate ; corolla tubular, 4—5 times longer 
than the calyx; capsule hemispherical, 5-costate. Lightfootia? robusta, 
DC.! Prodr. p. 427. Wahlenb. rigida, Bernh.! in pl. Krauss Flora, 1845. 
Has. Hills near Zwaanepoelpoortberg, 2-3000 ft., Drege ; Grootrivier, Uiten- 
hage, E. § Z. ; Mount Winterhoek, Dr. Krauss. April-Aug. (Herb. Sd.) 
ranches alternate, reddish-brown ; twigs short, divergent. Leaves 4—6 lines 
long, 1-1} line wide, coriaceous, mostly fasciculate. Pedicels 2-3 lines, calyx 1 
line long. Corolla semi-5-cleft, lobes lanceolate. Style as long as the corolla ; 
stigma 3-fid, revolute. Capsule 1 line long; the valves a little longer than the 
calyx-lobes. Seeds obovoid, 
46. W. epacridea (Son.); stem woody; branches erect, simple, 
minutely pubescent, leaves appressed, imbricated, broadly ovate, acu- 
tish, entire or with a few short, bluntish teeth, pubescent; flowers 
aggregated in a terminal, oblong, leafy spike; calyx-lobes pubescent, 
ovate, acuminate ; corolla 5-lobed at the apex, twice or three times 
longer than the calyx. 
Var. 8. glabrata ; branches and leaves glabrous or nearly so, leaves ovate, 
acuminate. 
Has. Port Natal, Zulu plains, Gerrard and M‘Ken, 1502 ; var, 8. Transvaal, 
. April. (Herb. Hook, D.) 
Root woody. Stem in our specimens short, branches 1-1 foot long, densely 
leafy from the base. Leaves 14-2 lines long, 14 line wide, im var. 8. about 3 lines 
long, 1 line wide, denticulate, 1-nerved. Spikes 1-2 inches long, 10-20-flowered. 
Tube of calyx 1 line, lobes 1} line long. Corolla dark blue, infundibuliform, ovary 
ee Style shorter than the corolla, conically incrassate at the base ; stigma 
tri-fid, 
Wahlenbergia chondrophylla, Buck! in E. Z., Enum, 2388, is Dobrowskya aspera. 
XII. LEPTOCODON, Sond. 
Calyx 5-lobed, with ovate tube. Corolla tubular, 5-lobed at the apex- 
Stamens 5, free ; anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled. ‘Style filiform, the base 
dilated, permanent. Stigmas 2, recurved. Capsule 2-celled, many-seeded, 
wholly inferior, cylindrical, covered by the superior, solid, conical base 
of the style. Dissepiment complete, the whole length in the middle, 
placentiferous. Seeds ovoid, subangular, reticulate-punctate. 
An annual, prostrate herb, with the habit of Microcodon. Branches hairy, sub- 
divided, sparingly leafed. Leaves alternate, linear, narrow, denticulated, ciliated 
at the base. Flowers sessile, terminal, densely glomerated, involucrated and 
bracteated aby elongate, linear leaves. Calyx hairy. Name from Aewros, slender, and 
Kwder, a bell, 
