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LXV. CAMPAXULACE.E, [Zoklk. 



Anthers all tipped with a tuft of short bristles, otherwise glabrous. Capsule 

 linear, f to 1 in. long, the conical summit opening loculicidally in 2 valves, 

 as m other Lobelias, the adnate tube usually splitting when old into 2 valves 

 parallel to the dissepiment, but remaining entire at the top and the base.- 

 Grammatotheca (the whole geiuis), Presl, Prod. Mon. Lob. 43 ; A. DC. Piocl. 

 vu. 348 J G. erinoicles, Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 532, with the synonyms adduced; 

 G.Dregeana,VYes'\, I.e.; A. DC. Prod. vii. 348, 784;'Deless. Ic. Sel. v. 

 t. 6 ; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 171 ; LoLelia macrocarpa, Dc Yr. in PI. Preiss.i. 

 396 ; L. amplexlcaiiUs, De Yr. I.e. 397; L. stenotheca, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 



W. Australfe, Brummoud, n. 43, 156, 179; wet, swampy places or growing ia 

 water, (jonlon ; Tone, Moore, and Murchison rivers, OldfieU ; borders of Loke Kcrerinala 

 and Sussex district, Preiss, n. 1453, 1443. The species is also common in S. Africa. 



The proposed gemis Grammaiotheca (of which Sonder is quite correct in reducing tie 

 snpposed^ species to a single one) was founded on the capsule said to be triquetrous, 1 -celled, 

 with parietal placentas, and opening laterally in 3 valves, of which 2 bear the placentas; 

 an extraordinary structure, copied from Presl by A. De Candollc and by Sonder witboat 

 ventication and for which I cannot trace the slightest foundation. Probably in a very care- 

 Jess, superhcial observation Presl mistook the dissepiment for a third valve, and imagined 

 me rest trom Lhamisso s having associated the plant with CVrntonia on account of the linear 

 cap.uie Ihe true structure, already alluded to by E. Brown (Prod. p. 562) is very well 

 represented in the above-quoted ' Icones' of Dckssert. This splitting of the capsule can 

 scarcely be called a dehiscence, which is on the summit as in other Lobelias, and the habit 

 IS too near that of L. anceps, in which the capsule is almost linear, to admit of its gcnenc 

 separation. 1 have not taken up the specific name erwoides as being that given by Thnn- 

 Derg tor, although this plant may be so named in Thnnberg's herbarium, he evidently hal 

 ct»iefly m view Lmnscus's L. erinoides, as he quotes the synonym from \ViUdenow, where tbe 

 capsule IS described as obovate. 



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Sect. II.^ Hemipogon.— Two lower anthers tipped with tufts of short 



bristles or with single bristles or points, sometimes very minute, 3 upper ones 

 without termmal bristles, hut sometimes with short hairs on the back, 

 totems usually prostrate or creeping, or the branches ascending or erect from 

 a decumbent base. Flowers solitary, on axiUary pedicels, the uppermost 

 rarely fonnmg a leafy raceme. J i ' 



11. L. anceps, T/tunb.; DC. Prod. vii. 375. A glabrous perennial, 

 ttie rootstock often shortly creeping ; stems decumbent, ascending or erect, 

 rrom a tew m to 1^ ft. long, angular or more or less winged by the decur- 

 reut leaves. Lower leaves petiolate, obovate or cuueate, sometimes 2 in. long 

 but usually smaller, the larger stem-leaves oblong-spathulate, lanceolate or 

 almost linear, passing gradually into nan-ow, sessile floral leaves, the upper- 

 most reduced to very smaU bracts, all entire or sparingly toothed. Flo^vers 

 rZi: '" p'P" f '?'■*' .'^^"•'^'■y P^^^'^'^Is. t^e upper on'es forming a slender 

 cunZt , V ^'■^n°^'n^'°'<^'y lanceolate, acute, not half so long as the iinear- 

 irSl 1 \ o^'^^h ^^^^ ^'^ ''^l"^"^* white, the lower lobes forming » 

 thP^ l-f'i.''f ' \^'^ \^' ^^^ 2 upper ones small, acute, and falcate. Ap- 

 n^Z ^f^ ■ !r "^"r^ ^"''^ °^^ ^^« back, the 2 lower one^ tipped with a tuft 

 In.l f • ''P'"^' oblong-linear. 3 to 4 lines or in luxuriant speci- 



ITJ ^'"%.^««?' ^oftra^ted at the base.-Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 237 ;^; 

 decimbens, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2277; L. rlizoj>hyta, Sehult. ; Sims, Bot. 



