126 LXV. CAMPANULACE^. [Lobelh^ 



5. Ii, rl^ytidosperxna, Bentli. An erect annual, simple or slightly 

 branched, glabrous or very sparingly and minutely pubescent, J to 1 ft. 

 high, Eadical leaves obovate, toothed, lower stem ones pinnatifid, upper ones 

 small, linear, and scarcely toothed. Flowers large, singly terminating the stems 

 and long branch-like peduncles. Calyx-tube naiTow, the lobes often 3 to i 

 lines long, but variable. Corolla nearly of X. Jieterophylla, the middle lower lobe 

 broadly ob ovate, the lateral ones smaller, the 2 upper smaller, incurved, and 

 usually hairy. Capsule slightly oblique but not gibbous, when full grown 6 

 to 8 lines long and 2 to 2|- lines broad, tapering at the base. Seeds smcall, 

 ovate, convex and prominently tubercular-rugose on the back, smooth hut 

 opaque and with a prominent rib on the inner face. — L. simpUcicaidis, Bentli. 

 in Hueg. Enum. 74, not of R. Br. 



IV. Australia. Swau River, Huegel, Brummond, 1st Coll n. 419, 421. Very Dear 

 the more simple, erect forms of L. tenuior, but the flowers are larger, and the seeds very 

 diflerent. 



6. If. tenuior, R, Br, Prod. 564. An annual, more or less puhescent 

 or hirsute, with short hairs or rarely nearly glabrous, branching and sliglitly 

 decumbent at the base, with erect or ascending stems, often 1 ft. high or 

 more, each with a single terminal flower or branching into few, long, 1- 

 flowered peduncles. Eadical leaves usually small, obovate, and deeply 

 toothed ; stem leaves linear, the lower ones pinnatifid, the upper small, linear, 

 and entire or toothed. Tlowers large, like those of L. heterophjUa, but tlic 

 calyx-tube narrow. Middle lower lobe of the corolla broadly obovate, the 

 lateral ones also obovate, the 2 upper much smaller, incurved. Capsule 

 when full grown 6 to S lines long and 2 to %\ lines broad, tapering at the 

 base, scarcely oblique. Seed small, compressed, very smooth and shining, 

 without prominent angles.— Z, ramosa, Benth. in Maund. Botanist, ii. t. 93; 

 A. DC. Prod. vii. 359; i. longepedunculata, De Vr. in PL Prciss. i. SH 



erroneously refen-ed to i. smplicicauUs in PI Preiss. ii. 242 ; L, adscendem. 

 Pe Yr. in PL Preiss. i. 895 ; i. Tieterophylla, Hook. Bot, Mag. t. 3784, not 

 of Labill. ; Paxt. Mag. vi. 197, with a figure. 



"W. Australia, King George's Sound, 22. Broian, F, Mueller; Swan River, 5'w^y^[' 

 Lrummond, 1st ColL^ also SappL n. 4, Freiss, k. 1425, 1452. X. ciUata, De Vr. m I'i- 

 Preiss. i. 397, from the same locality, appears to be the same species, but the seeds are boC 

 yet sufficiently formed to be certain. I find I had correctly identified this species m de- 

 scnbmg Huegel's plants at Vienna, but afterwards, owing to a misprint in Nees' edition oi 

 Brown's 'Prodromus/ where (T) is given for this plant instead of (M), I fancied I must ha^^ 

 been wTong in identifying a south-western with a tropical species, and described it as ue^ 



7. L. riombifolia. Be Vr. in PL Preiss. i. 397. A glabrous annual, 

 brandling and decumbent at tbe base, with usually numerous, erect or 

 nscendmg branches, from 3 or 4 in. to nearly 1 ft. high. Lower leaves ob- 

 ovate or cnneate, and deeply cut, 4 to f in. long, the others smaU, few, lan- 

 ceolate or almost Hnear, mostly with a few deep teeth or lobes. Flo^.^" 

 resembling those of L. gracilis, but on long, slender peduncles, terminating 

 the stems and branches. Calyx-lobes very narrow, longer than the tube. 

 Corolla about ^ in. long or rather more, the middle lobe narrow-obovate. 

 Anthers all tipped with tufts of shoi-t bristles. Capsule very oblique^ 



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