214 LXXI. CAMPANULACES. 
funnel-shaped, tubular or bell-shaped, ample, 5-lobed. Ovary 
2-celled; stigmas 2, thick. Capsule cylindrical, 2-celled, 
quite inferior, topped by the persistent, perforated base of the 
style as by an operculum, at length opening at the apex by an 
ample orifice, without valves. Seeds scabrous, large.—Fl. 
Cap. ii. p. 591. 
Rigid undershrubs or herbs, all South African. Leaves crowded, mostly 
narrow, rigid, with axillary leaf-tufts. Flowers sessile, terminal or rarely 
fascicled.—11 species, dispersed. 
16. MERCIERA, A. DC. 
Calyx 4-5-cleft ; tube ovoid. Corolla tubular, 4~5-lobed ; 
tube very narrow. Stamens 4-5, free; filaments very slender 
at base, much longer than the anthers. Ovary inferior, with 
an incomplete septum, 1-celled; ovules 4 (or 2?) in the 
bottom of the ovary. Style filiform, usually exserted, gla- 
brous ; stigmas 2, very short. Capsule unknown.—Fl. Cap. 
ii. p. 595. 
Small undershrubs, with the aspect of Roella ciliata. Branches very leafy. 
Leaves sessile, linear-subulate, rigid, ciliate, with axillary leaf-tufts. Flowers 
sessile, axillary ; corollas very long and narrow.—2 species, both Western. 
17. SIPHOCODON, Turcz. 
Calyx 5-parted; tube ovoid. Corolla tubular, 5-lobed at 
apex; tube narrow. Stamens 5; filaments short, mserted in 
the middle of the tube of the corolla ; anthers longer than the 
filaments. Ovary circumscissile below the calyx-lobes, 3- 
celled; cells 2-ovuled; stigmas 3, revolute. Capsule open- 
ing across, the upper part falling off, the cup-like remains 
3-celled ; cells 1-seeded.—F7. Cap. ii. p. 596. 
A slender, glabrous halfshrub, like a Thestwm. Leaves alternate, linear, 
minute, scale-like, appressed. Flowers blue, shortly peduncled, racemose, 
racemes often panicled.—Found in Caledon. 
DovustruL GENUS. 
?18. Rhigiophyllum, Hochst. 
Calyx 5-parted ; lobes longer than the ovoid tube. Corolla tubular, 
very slender and long, 5-lobed at apex. Stamens 5, subincluded ; filaments 
inserted on the corolla-tube below the throat. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; 
cells with many ovules ; style filiform, exserted ; stigmas 3-lobed, recurved. 
Capsule 3-celled (ripe not known).— FU. Cap. ii. p. 597. 
A rigid, small shrub, like a Roella. Leaves imbricate, squarrose, entire. 
Flowers capitate-—Found near Elin, Zwellendam, by Krauss. 
TRIBE 3. CYPHIER. 
19. CYPHIA, Berg. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, adhering to the ovary ; limb 5-parted, 
