60 Ca7npanulacecB. {Campanula. 



base or on sides; seeds very numerous, minute. — Sp. 230; 

 13 in FL B. Ind. 



Annual ; fl. very small, paniculate . . i. C. CANESCENS. 

 Perennial ; fl. large, spicate . . . . 2. C. FULGENS. 



1. C. canescens, Wall. Cat. 1289 (1828). 

 Ccphalostigma spathulattan, Thw. Enum. 422. C. P. 3794. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 439. 



Annual, stem 6-18 in., erect, slender, somewhat angular, 

 hairy, corymbosely branched at top ; 1. sessile, the lower 

 spathulate, much tapering at base, the upper lanceolate or 

 linear-lanceolate, all acute, faintly denticulate-serrate, hairy 

 on both sides; fl. dimorphic, very small, on long bristly ped., 

 in erect, lax, terminal panicles; cal. bristly, segm. lanceolate, 

 acute ; cor. (often absent) broadly campanulate, lobes short, 

 ciliate; capsule very small, globose, opening by valves from 

 the base. 



Montane zone, very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens, col- 

 lected on rocks, at 4000 ft., between Borulanda and Haputale in 1863. 

 Fl. April ; pale purple. 



Also in N. and Central India and Burma. 



In the fl. without a cor., the stam. also are absent. 



2. C. fulg"ens, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. {ed. Carey and Wall.), ii. 99 

 (1824). 



Thw. Enum. 169. C. P. 1775. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 442. Wight, 111. t. 136; Ic. t. 11 79. 



Perennial herb, with a short twisted rootstock and large 

 fusiform roots, flowering stems 6-18 in., erect, glabrous, not 

 branched ; 1. few, mostly near the base, on rather long petioles, 

 oval or lanceolate, acute at both ends, crcnate-serrate, nearly 

 glabrous, upper ones sessile and narrower ; fl. few, rather 

 large, on very short ped., 1-3 together, in interrupted, terminal, 

 spicate racemes; cal. glabrous, segm. long, linear; cor, very 

 deeply cut (nearly to base), lobes lanceolate, acute ; stam. 

 erect, fil. dilated below ; stigma-lobes linear ; capsule \ in., 

 ovoid, crowned with cal.-segm., dehiscent on the sides; seeds 

 ovoid. 



On patanas, upper montane zone, rather rare. Nuwara Eliya; Sita 

 Eliya; Maturata. Fl. Feb., March, November; violet. 

 Also in the Himalayas and Nilgiris. 



