92 NEILGHEBRY PLANTS. 
CaMPANULA ALPHONSII. (Wall.) decumbent one- places. The original specimens of this species were 
flowered : stem pubescent, cauline leaves sessile, sub- from Nepaul, but so far as character enables me to. de- 
lanceolate acute, denticulate, pilose above, incanous cide, the Southern plant does not differ. 
beneath : calyx pubescent, divisions acute serrated or 
sometimes lobed, about half the length of the campa- CAMPANULA FULGENS. ( Wall.) stem erect, about a 
nulate puberulous corolla. D. C. Prod. 473. (very foot high, hairy: leaves lanceolate acuminated at 
slightly altered.) oth ends, short petioled, serrated : flowers subsessile, 
Well tvarvins forming dense tufts in clefts of rocks. axillary solitary - together, approximated to- 
The specimen represented is very different from the wards the apex: lobes of the calyx subulate erect 
one described by D. C. ugh unquestionably the entire, about the length of the infundibuliform gla- 
same species ;I have therefore in the character ven- brous corolla—D. C. Prod. 7. p. 477. 
tured to make one or two slight alterations, but I sus- eilgherries, on grassy slopes and pastures, fre- 
pect scarcely enough to give a correct idea ofthe quent. I have another form, apparently, of this plant 
species. with the flowers congested into a capitulum. Flower- 
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CAMPANULA RAMULOSA. (Wall.) stem erect, pilose confined to that season as it may be found in flower at 
ramous ; leaves lanceolate sessile, crenato-dentate, veins t a 
prominent beneath : pedicels axillary and terminal: fer from the Bengal one in the calyx, being considera- 
i sus 
the length of the cylindrical villous corolla; capsule picion of its being a distinct species though, from its 
turbinate drooping. D. C. Prod. 7. 473. agreeing so well with the character in other respects, I 
Neilgherries, in woods and about hedges in shady cannot venture on giving it a new name. 
VACCINIACE &.—Bitzerry-trise. 
Botanists are divided in opinion whether this family ought to be kept distinct or 
should form a suborder of the Heath-tribe, Hricacee. The question is not easily answered 
being one on which much may be said on both sides without leading to conviction on either, 
such being the case I shall not attempt to discuss it here beyond merely stating that those 
who insist on keeping them distinct, do so on the ground of the ovary being in this inferior, 
ard the fruit generally a berry, while in Ericacee the ovary is superior, that is, lodged within 
the tube of the corolla, and the fruit capsular, opening by valves to give exit to their innu- 
merable dust-like seed. In all other respects they may he said to associate on the most 
amicable terms, as may be seen from the examples here given. 
In regard to this controversy it may perhaps be remarked, en passant, that it 
would be fortunate if all our orders rested on as satisfactory characters, even though it may 
well be doubted whether, in the present instance, they are ealculated to produce conviction, 
especially after adverting to the characters of Lobelia in which it is said the ovary is in- 
ferior or half superior (see Z. exedsa) or quite superior ; or still better to those of Rosacee 
in which both structures are abundantly obvious in its different suborders : or perhaps better 
than either to Myrsiniacee, where in the section Mesee, the flowers are epigynous while 
the rest of the order has them hypogynous. 
The plants composing this order are generally, if not always, trees or shrubs of 
great beauty, usually with alternate leaves and bell shapec or long tubular flowers in which 
pink is the predominating colour, though in some they are the purest white, forming lovely 
clusters on the ends of the branches. None of the Indian ones with which I am acquainted 
possess this character they, for the most part, having elongated racemes : but some have 
their flowers solitary from the axils of the leaves. The stamens with few exceptions are in- 
cluded within the tube of the flower and are very curiously formed bodies, especially the 
anthers. ‘The proper anther, or pollen case, is two celled and opens by pores: these for 
the most part are surmounted by two long tubes open at the apex and furnished on the back 
with two bristles. These bristles are not however so constantly present as the horns or 
tubes. These appendages are so general, that they have procured for the group of orders in 
which they occur the characteristic name of Bicornes. They are found inall the Neilgherry 
