Campanula.'] CaiupaiiulacecB. 59 



In the grass of the patanas, montane zone 4000-7000 ft., veiy com- 

 mon. Fl. Dec-May; pale violet blue. 



Throughout India and in E. Asia, Australia, N. Zealand, and S. Africa. 



Campaitula zeylanica, Moon Cat. 14, is probably this, which indeed 

 strongly suggests the common Harebell (C rotundifolia) of England. 



3. SPKENOCXiEA, Gaertn. 



Annual, 1. alt., fl. small, bracteate, in dense spikes ; cal.- 

 tube with lower half adnate to ov., segm. 5, broad; cor, small, 

 broadly campanulate, lobes 5 ; stam. 5, inserted at very base 

 of cor., distinct, included ; ov. half-inferior, 2-celled, with 

 numerous ovules, stigmas 2 ; capsule depressed-top-shaped, 

 crowned with persistent cal., flat-topped, dehiscent in a cir- 

 cumscissile manner by a deciduous lid ; seeds very numerous. 

 — Monotypic. 



S. zeylanica, Gaertti. Friict. i. 113 (1788). 



Moon Cat. 14. S. Pongathwi* A. DC, Thw. Enum. 170. C. P. 1773. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 438. Wight, 111. t. 138 (5. Po7tgatium). 



An erect annual herb, \-2\ ft., stem somewhat stout and 

 succulent, quite glabrous, with divaricate ascending branches; 

 1. on short slender petioles, \\-2\ in., oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblong-oval, tapering to base, acute, entire, glabrous, glaucous 

 green ; fl. small, sessile, each with 3 lanceolate bracts at base, 

 densely packed in a close, terminal, stalked spike, |-i in. long; 

 cal. quite glabrous, segm. ovate, subacute; capsule chartaceous; 

 seeds minute, ovoid, rather rough. 



Wet places near the coast, rather rare. Colombo; Kalutara; Galle; 

 Batticaloa; Jaffna. Fl. Jan., Feb.; greenish-white. 



Throughout the Tropics. 



Gaertner gives as the Sinhalese name of this, ' Tembul-woenna,' and 

 Moon ' Maha-muda-mahana.' 



4. CADIPANUZiA, L. 



Annual or perennial herbs, 1. alt, fl. panicled or subspicate; 

 cal.-tube adnate to ov,, segm. 5 ; cor, (sometimes absent) cam- 

 panulate, lobes 5; stam. 5, epigynous, distinct and free; ov. 

 inferior, 3-celled, with very many ovules in each cell, stigma 

 3-lobed ; fruit a papery capsule, dehiscent by small valves at 



* Pojigati is the Malabar name as given by Rheede (Hort. Malab. xi, 

 47). 



