256 CAMPANULACE^. 



acute, crenate-serrate, hispid, especially on the under- 

 side. Flowers terminating the main stem and on 

 axillary branches, forming a broad irregular panicle. 

 Calyx-tube % inch ; sepals as long triangular. Corolla 

 twice as long, pale purple or grey-blue with darker 

 markings, lobed about one-third- Anthers long, attached 

 lightly at their bases. Stigma three-lobed. Calyx-tube 

 in fruit % inch, hemispheric with proportionately 

 enlarged sepals, t. 176. Wight Sp. Nilg. t. 126; Ic. t. 

 II78. 



In the grass of the open downs, flowering from May to 

 August. Pulneys : 7,000 feet and above. Nilgiris : on the 

 downs. Fyson 561. Bourne 305, 712, 805.^ 



The species was founded on a Himalayan plant. I find no difference 

 between my Pulney and the Thibetan examples at Kew. 



Campanula alphonsii Wall, Cat. 1296 ! ; F.B.I, iii 

 440, XIII 6. 



Stems slender, much tufted, weak and spreading. 

 Leaves ^ to ?^ inch, obovate, narrowed to the nearly 

 sessile base, white below, with a few rounded teeth. 

 Flowers mostly terminal, and a few pedicelled in the 

 upper axils. Corolla bell-shaped M to ^ inch. Wight 

 Sp. Nilg. t. 125, Ic. t. I177. 



On the downs, Pulneys and Nilgiris. Bourne 283, 1578. 



Leaves similar in some respects to C. colorata, but more closely set 

 and all facing upwards on the horizontal stems. The flowering part, too, 

 not corymbosely branched. Not reported elsewhere. 



Campanula fulgens Wall, Cat. 1283 ! ; F.B.I, iii 442, 

 XIII 13. Remarkable for the flowers being in groups at 

 irregular intervals along the spike. 



Stem erect, I to 3 feet, and about M inch thick, ribbed, 

 little, if at all, branched. Leaves crowded near the 

 ground, distant higher up, 2 to 3^ by ^ to I inch, elliptic, 

 narrowed at both ends, coarsely crenate-serrate, softly 

 pubescent on the upper side, roughly hairy on the under. 

 Spikes terminal. Flowers solitary or in bunches of two 



