Prismatocarpus.| CAMPANULACE (Sond.) 589 
the middle ; the tube a little shorter than the calyx lobes. Capsule 6 lines long, 
4-angular. 
9. P. Candolleanus (Chamiss.! Linnaea, vol. 8, p. 197) ; stem woody, 
branched ; branches erect, minutely downy, very leafy, ending in a 
nearly naked or somewhat leafy, remoti-flowered, glabrous spike ; leaves 
erect, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 2-4 dentate at 
the base, with revolute margins, glabrous, or the lower ones subpilose 
beneath; flowers sessile, remotely spiked ; bracteze subulate-acuminate, 
at the base larger than the leaves, pinnatifid ; calyx glabrous, lobes 
linear-lanceolate, one half shorter than the 5-fid corolla. £. & Z./ 2401. 
Haz. Near Ruiterbosch, Mundt. Jan. (Herb. Hook., Sd.) 
Nearly allied to P. £cklonii in size and habit ; stem and branches quite similar, 
the leaves broader at the base, with 2 or rarely 4 acute or subspinous teeth, rigid, 
6-8 lines long, 1 line or somewhat broader at the base. Spike often leafy at the 
lower part; inferior flowers 1 inch distant, the upper approximate. Bractez leaf- 
like, as long as the calyx tube, pinnatifid-dentate, middle lobes longer ; upper ones 
smaller. Calyx lobes 4 lines long, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 5-fid to the 
middle, lobes acute. Capsule 3 inch long, prismatical, glabrous. The flowers are 
gery solitary, rarely geminate or ternate, and then on a very short pedicel or 
branc 
10. P. crispus (L’ Her. Sert. Angl. p.2); stem herbaceous, terete, simple 
or branched, and hairy at the base, quite glabrous, dichotomously 
branched and naked above ; leaves linear, acute, elongate, undulately 
toothed, whitish margined ; peduncles divaricate, 1-flowered; bractez 
subulate; calyx glabrous or subpilose, tube elongate ; lobes linear, 
acuminated, entire ; corolla infundibuliform, deeply 5-fid, twice longer 
than the calyx. A. DC. Monog. p. 168. Prod.! p. 444. E.G Z. 2397. 
Camp. crispa, Herb. Banks, C. plicata, Pers. enchir. 1, p. 193. 
Has. Sandy stony places near Waterfall, Tulbagh, Z. Z. Rivier Zonder Einde, Zey. 
Glenfilling and Grahamstown, Albany, Drege. Oct.-Dec. (Herb. Hook., D. Sd.) 
Annual herb, 1-14 feet high, subflexuous ; branches alternate, the lower some- 
times opposite, ascending. aves 1-14 inch long, 1-2 lines wide, curled on the 
margins. Calyx lobes very narrow, 4-5 lines long, erect. Corolla to $-5-fid, lobes 
oblong, acute. Capsule 1~3 inches long. 
11, P. campanuloides (Sond.) ; stem herbaceous, simple or branched, 
glabrous or pilose at the base ; leaves erect or spreading, linear, acute, 
glabrous or subciliate, with revolute remotely denticulate or entire 
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margins; flowers spiked, solitary or geminate ; bractez ovate, acumi- 
nate; calyx glabrous, tube elongate, lobes linear, at 
infundibuliform, 5-fid, one half longer than the calycine lobes. Pole- 
monium campanuloides. Linn. suppl. p. 139. Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 177. 
Lightfootia sessiliflora, Spreng. in Zeyh. fl. cap. eas. 203. Prismatoc. lina- 
riacfolius et P. strictus, A. DC. Monog. p. 169. Prod. p. 444. E. & Z. 
2398, 2399. . *  s 
Has. Sandy places on the Zwartkopsrivier, and on Wimterhoeksberg near Elands- 
rivier, E. ¢ Z. Zeyh, 3148. Tulbagh near Waterfall, Dr. Pappe. Ataquaskloof and 
between Kovi and Katrivier, Drege. Cafferland, Dr. Gill, Dec.—Apr. (Herb. 
Thunb., Hook., D., Sond.). ~ % “ 
Perennial, 1-2 feet or more in height, angular-striated by the decurrent leaves ; 
branches alternate, virgate, glabrous. Leaves numerous, sometimes few and distant, 
alternate, 4-1 inch long, 1 line wide, flat, with more or less revolute margins, cili- 
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