590 CAMPANULACEE (Sond.) [Prismatocarpus. 
ated at the base or to the apex, or quite entire, or with a few minute teeth. 
Branches ending in a few-flowered, nearly naked spike, rarely terminated by a 
single flower. Bracts 4~6 lines long, enclosing 1-3 flowers. Calyx lobes 5-6 lines 
long, at flowering time as long or shorter than the tube. Corolla subcampanulate, 
with ovate, acute, lobes, blueish. Stigmas 2. Capsule 1 inch long, 5-valved. 
Tt has a great affinity to P. Lcklonii, from which it is distinguished by herbaceous 
stem, angulate, striate, glabrous branches, and less rigid leaves. 
12. P. nitidus (L/Her. sert. angl. p. 2, t. 3); plant rather woody, 
branched ; leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate, flat, serrulated, spreading, 
shining ; flowers 2-4, sessile, and approximate at top of the branches; 
bractez leafy; calyx glabrous, tube longer than the bractez, lobes 
lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; corolla infundibuliform, subcam- 
panulate, twice longer than the calyx. A. DC.! Monog. p. 170. Prod. 
p. 445. E. & Z. 2403. Camp. Prismatocarpus, Ait. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 
2733. Herb. Un. Itin. 155. 
Has. Table Mountain. Jan. E.¢ Z. W.H. Harvey. (Herb. Hook., D., Sd.) 
A small glabrous perennial, with short or elongated diffuse redddish branches. 
Leaves 4-6 times longer than broad, commonly 4-6 lines long, sharply serrate, acute. 
Flowers 2-4 in a cluster, rarely solitary in the axils of the bractee, Calyx 14 line 
long. Corolla white, 5 lobed. Capsule 1 inch long. 
13. P. sessilis (Eckl.! A. DC. Monog. p. 171); stem much branched ; 
branches simple or dichotomously divided, filiform, diffuse, glabrous ; 
leaves fascicled, spreading, narrow-linear, canaliculate above, entire, 
subciliate at the base ; flowers sessile, axillary, aggregated, rarely soli- 
tary, pedicellate, opposite the leaf; calyx glabrous, lobes minute, ovate- 
lanceolate; corolla infundibuliform, 2-3 times longer than the calyx ; 
capsule shorter than the leaf. Prod.p. 445. #.§2Z.2404. Herb. Un. 
Itin. 152, & 194. 
Has. Grassy places on the Table Mountain and in Capeflats, £. & Z., W. H. 
Harvey, Zey. 1080, near Simon’s Bay, Milne, 169. Nov.—Jan. (Herb, Hk., D., Sd.) 
Branches some inches to 1 foot and more long, purplish, shining. Leaves or 
fascicles often secundate, the outer or larger 3-1 inch long, not 3 line wide, chan- 
nelled above, subtrigonous, longer than flower and fruit. Generally 2-8 flowers are 
aggregated in a fascicle, sometimes they are pedicellate and solitary. Calyx lobes 
3 line long. Corolla white, 5-lobed, 2-3 lines long. Capsule prismatical, 3 lines 
oe It ting: gant as a perennial by Ecklon and Zeyher ; small specimens seem 
to be annual, 
14. P. tenerrimus (Buek.! in E. Z. enum, 2402); stem much branch- 
ed; branches filiform, subsimple, velvety or sub-glabrous, flowering 
secundate, remotely leafy ; leaves alternate, erect, linear, acuminate, 
glabrous ; bracteze ovate, acuminate, ciliate ; flowers axillary, sessile, 
solitary or geminate, spiked; calyx glabrous, lobes acuminate ; corolla 
ei fo en twice longer than the calyx ; capsule longer than 
the leaf. 
Has. Mts. near Rivier Zonder Einde, Swellendam. Feb.-Mar. £. § Z. (Hb. Sd.) 
A subshrub, woody at the base, in characters very near the foregoing, but in habit 
very distinct. Branches reddish. Leaves 4-1 inch long, 3 line wide, not fascicled, 
flattish, the margins scarcely revolute, not ciliate at the base. The lateral branches 
form a distant-flowered spike; the inferior or smaJler branches bear sometimes 1 OF 
2 single flowers at the top, Calyx lobes 2 lines long. Corolla white, 5-lobed. Cap- 
aule 4-6 lines long. = 
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