CAMPANULACE/E. 253 



CAMPANULACE/E. 



Herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers monopetalous 

 with an inferior ovary, typically of three cells ; rather 

 long persistent sepals ; stamens attached at the base to 

 the corolla ; and very numerous small seeds with erect 

 embryo in endosperm. 



Species about i,ooo, all over the world. 



Tribe I : LOBELIE/^ — Corolla irregular, two-lipped, and 

 split down the back to the base : anthers united but filaments 

 free (as in composit.e). 



Fruit a capsule : tall herbs with dense spike of flowers ; or 

 small herbs lobelia. 



Tribe II: C AMPANU LE. E—CoroWdi regular: anthers 

 not connected. 



Capsule opening inside the calyx-teeth : stem very slender. 



(Hair-bell) wahlenbergia. 



Capsule opening by slits at the side, below and between the 



calyx-teeth : stem erect or spreading , . . campanula. 



LOBELIA. F.B.I. II. 



Herbs, tall or quite low, with alternate usually toothed 

 leaves. Flowers solitary in the axils of leaves or of 

 bracts, and then often in a dense terminal spike. Corolla 

 two-lipped; upper lip split down the back; lower three- 

 lobed spreading. Stamens five, connected above into a 

 tube: anthers connate, the two upper (dorsal) tipped 

 with bristles, the three lower naked. Ovary inferior, 

 three-celled, surmounted by three long sepals : style 

 single, with bifid stigma. Fruit a capsule opening in 

 two valves between the calyx-teeth. 



Species 200, in temperate and sub-tropical regions. 



Lobelia trigona Roxb. ; F.B.L iii 423, II i. A small 

 delicate herb similar to the common blue Lobelia of 

 gardens. 



Stem 5 to 12 inches. Leaves % to H inch, broadly 

 ovate, crenate-serrate, very shortly stalked, Flowers on 



