504 pentandria monogynia. Campanula. 



A native of various parts of India. Flowers during- the 

 rainy season in Bengal. 



11. 1, pileata. R. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves profoundly round-cordate, vil- 

 lous. Flowers a few, sessile in a peltate, four-cornered, pe- 

 d uncled, axillary bonnet. 



This rather small, villous species has been 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 cainpanulate. Filaments with 

 their lobes dilated, and arched. Stigma from three to five- 

 cleft. Capsule inferior, from three to five-celled, opening by 

 pores on the sides. 



1. C. dehiscens. R. 



Annual, ascending, round, a little hairy. Leaves, sessile, 

 linear-lanceolate, remotely toothed. Flowers from five to six, 

 terminal. Capsules without lateral pores and opening at the 

 apex. 



A native of Bengal. Flowering time the cold, and begin- 

 ning of the hot season. 



Root nearly simple, white, annual. Stems and branches 

 ascending, about a foot high, round, hairy. Leaves alternate, 

 sessile, linear-lanceolate, remotely, and lightly toothed ; from 

 one to two inches long. Flower* terminal, corymbiform, 

 white, pretty large, bell-shaped. Calyx, corol, stamens and 

 pistil as the genus. Capsule obovate, without lateral pores, 



