504 _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Campanula, 
A native of various parts of India. Flowers during the 
rainy season’in Bengal. past 
11. I. pileata, R. 
Perennial, twining. Leaves profoundly round-cordate, vil- 
lous. Flowers a few, sessile in a peltate, four-cornered, pe- 
duncled, axillary bonnet. 
This rather small, villous species has baie introduced from 
China into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms 
and ripens its seeds during the cool dry months from No- 
vember to February. It is particularly remarkable on ac- 
count of its entire, rhombiform concave bonnet or involucre, 
in the bottom or centre of which, from three to six middle - 
sized, rosy, funnel-shaped flowers sit; it is hairy round the 
flowers, as are also the unequal leaflets of the calyx. 
CAMPANULA. Schreb. gen. N. 290. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol campanulate. Filaments with 
their lobes dilated, and arched. Stigma from three to five- 
cleft. Capsule natoxinl from three to five-celled, ope by 
ake on the —: | 
1. C. dehiscens. R. 
Annual, ascending, voted a little eee ities les 
linear-lanceolate, remotely toothed. Flowers from five to six, 
oe icacgearen rigieaieacet anes Resin’ meting the 
apex, 2 Me on oe 
A native of Seagal! Blower ine she: wold, aa hea 
ning of the hot season, 
Root nearly simple, white, annual. Stems sie branches 
ascending, about a foot high, round, hairy. Leaves alternate, 
sessile, linear-lanceolate, remotely, and lightly toothed; from 
‘one to two inches long. lowers terminal, corymbiform, 
wh meet: large, bell-shaped. Calyx, corol, stamens and 
il as the genus. _ sConeninchanee, without lateral wet 
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