252 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Campanulaceee. 
Hab. Mussooree and Kedarkanta. 
12. Mulgedium sagittatum.—Tab. 61. fig. 2. a. anther; b. stigmas; c. achenium. 
Hab. Kedarkanta and banks of the Rawee and Buspa Rivers. 
97. LOBELIACEZ. - 
This order, allied to Cichoracee by its irregular split corollas, cohering anthers, and 
milky juice, is only considered a tribe of Campanulacee by Mr. Brown, but, unlike 
that order, delights more in southern than in northern latitudes, though the Indian 
species are chiefly found in mountainous situations. They are numerous in South 
America and the West Indies, as well as at the Cape of Good Hope, in New Holland, 
and in the Island of Java. A few species extend into China, Japan, Europe, and 
North America. In India we find them on the mountains of the Peninsula, as LL. 
excelsa, attaining an elevation of ten and twelve feet on the Neelgherries. A species 
extends to the Western Ghauts explored by Col. Sykes; JZ. zeylanica is found in. 
Silhet and on the mountains of the central range; L. stipularis is common to the 
Indian and Malayan Peninsulas, extending along the foot of the mountains to N epal 
and Kemaon, and existing at Mussooree in a diminutive state; ZL. rosea and begonifolia 
are found in the former as well as on the mountains of Pundooa; and L. pyramidalis, 
which Dr. Wallich describes as being found in Silhet, as well as in both low and lofty 
situations in Nepal, extends north as far as Shalma. | 
The Lobeliacee are remarkable for the acridity of their milky juice, on which account 
some are of a deleterious nature, as L. Tupa in Chili, and L. longiflora in the West 
Indies. Others are employed as medicinal agents, as L. syphilitica and cardinalis ; 
and L. inflata in North America as an emetic and sudorific ; L. Caoutchouc is so named 
by the inhabitants of Popayan from the tenacity of itsjuice. It would be desirable to 
ascertain if the Indian species are possessed of any useful properties. LZ. pyramidalis, 
excelsa, and others are highly ornamental, and well worthy of introduction into the 
gardens of England, . 
98. CAMPANULACE. 
M. Alphonse De Candolle, in his Monograph on the Campanulee, which, for com- 
prehensiveness of views combined with minuteness of detail, is quite a model for such 
kinds of work, treats of this order as a tribe of a more general one, which embraces. 
the foregoing and two following’ orders. Campanulaceé are well known from the 
different species of Bell-flower being so common in European fields and gardens. 
Indeed, they prevail chiefly in the temperate regions of both hemispheres, as in tbe 
Oriental and Mediterranean regions, the mountains of Europe, Caucasus, and the Altai, 
the frontiers of China and Siberia, N. America, the Cape of Good Hope, and New 
Holland; a few species in South America, St. Helena, and Senegambia, in the Burmese 
territories, and the islands of the Indian Archipelago. Of the three hundred and eleven 
species belonging to this order, only thirteen are found in intratropical countries, or as 
M. A. de Candolle expresses their distribution in a general way, one-half of the whole 
are 
