254 CAMPANULACE.E. 



slender axillary pedicels of I inch. Calyx-tube ^ inch ; 

 teeth slightly longer, linear. Corolla twice as long, blue, 

 with unequal lobes. Anthers all tipped with a minute 

 fringe of hairs. Capsule Ye to Y^. inch, ellipsoid. 



Belongs properly to lower levels, e.g., Coonoor, Coiirtallum 

 and Mysore, but occurs on the Nilgiri plateau at Pykara, 6,700 

 feet, in marshy ground, Fyso?t 2895. Pulneys : (below 

 Kodaikanal), Bourne 664. 



Gen. Dist. South India from sea level upwards to 6,000 feet and 

 over, Assam, Bengal, Ceylon, Burma. 



Lobelia cxcclsa Lesch. ; KB. I. iii 427, II 1 5. Tall 

 coarse herbs, stem usually simple. Leaves oblanceolate 

 obovate or elliptic, very large at the base, smaller above, 

 soft, finely toothed. Flowers in a dense purplish brown 

 spike, 12 inches by lY to 3 inches. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late, Y inch, tomentose ; sepals % inch, narrow acute. 

 Corolla about twice as long, split down the back, so that 

 it falls down exposing the stamens. Filaments twice as 

 long as the sepals : anthers 3/10 inch, oblong, glabrous. 

 Fruit globular, enclosed in the calyx-tube. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1 172. 



At high levels round sholas, etc. Nilgiris : Ootacamund. 

 Pulneys : Kodaikanal and above. Fyson 299, 411, 1891, 1938. 

 Bourne 105. 



Gen. Dist. Mountains of South India. 



At lower levels its place is taken by L. nicotiana2folia 

 Heyne ; F.B.I, in 427, II 14; with loosely-packed, branched 

 spikes and larger, white, flowers; i^>w;^ 1591, 514 ; Bourne 

 164 : and by a variety tricantha of that species, which has a 

 slendered, more branched and leafy spike ; Fyson 409. 



WAHLENBERGIA. f.b.i. iv. 



Flowers of the CAMPANULA type, i.e., the corolla 

 quite regular, bell-shaped with five lobes, and the anthers 

 free ; but differing in the capsule opening at the top, 

 inside the sepals. 



