70 LXXII. GUOJDKNIACE.I. 



glabrous, pale-green. Leaves 4|-8 by Ig-S^ in., alternate, obovate, 

 obtuse, numerous, sessile, entire, glabrous on both sides, base long- 

 tapering, with a tuft of white wool in its axil ; midrib stout, main 

 nerves slender. Elowers Avhite, in short axillary dichotoraous cymes 

 much shorter than the leaves, with small woolly bracts in their axils at 

 the bifurcations ; buds clavate, obtuse ; pedicels short, pubescent. 

 Calyx 5-^ in. long, pubescent; lobes 5, rather distant, ^-y'^g in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate or linear-obovate, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla 

 pubescent or glabrous outside, 1-1| in. long; tube hairy inside; lobes 

 |-2 in. long, spreading, elliptic-obovate, the central portion of the lobe 

 thick and stiff, prolonged into a stout apiculus, the margins thin, mem- 

 branous, irregularly toothed and ciliate. Style exceeding | in. long, 

 curved, very hairy, protruded through the split back of the corolla-tube; 

 cup round the stigma [indusium) i in. deep, hairy, ciliate. Drupe about 

 I in. in diam., subglobose, somewhat lobecl, very succulent, white whcni 

 ripe, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes; stone rough, bony. Fl. B. 

 I. v. 3, p. 421 ; Trim. ¥1 Ceyl. v'. 3, p. 54 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 201 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 1G2 ; AVatt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. G, part 2, p. 484. Sccevola Taccada, Roxb. Ilort, Beng. 

 p. 15 ; Grab. Cat. p. 1U3 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 134 ; AVight, 111. t. 137. 

 — Elowers : June-Dec. A^eex. Bhadrdlc ; Bhadrdhsh. 



Grows on the sea-coast ; sometimes cultivated in gardens, Bombay. Konkan : 

 Lambert ! ; Eari Fort, Dalzell ^- Gibson ; near Ratnagiri on the sea-coast, Talbot, 

 Woodroiv. SiND : Dabell ! — Distkib. Sea-shores of India ; Cejlon ; Trojiical East 

 Asia, Australia, Polj'uesia. 



2. Scaevola Lobelia, Mnrr. Si/st. ed. 13> (1774) p. 178. A small 

 shrub decumbent (Stoc/is), branched from the base. Leaves 14-3 by 

 I-I5 in., elliptic or obovate, subsessile, fleshy, glabrous, narrowed at the 

 base and with entire margins ; nerves inconspicuous. Flowers usually 

 in small axillary cymes of 3, the central one sessile ; bracts small, fleshy ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate. Calyx -l— ^ in. long, truncate or obscurely and 

 obtusely lobed. Corolla | in. long, yellowish; tube hairy inside; 

 lobes 5 in. long, linear-oblong. Drupe globose, smooth, purple, 5 in. in 

 diam. Yl B. I. v. 3, p. 421 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 201 ; AVoodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v, 12 (1898) p. 162. Sccevola uvifera. Stocks, in 

 AVight, Icon. t. 1613 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 134. ;S'. Phnnierii, Vahl, Svmb. 

 Bot. v. 2 (1791) p. 36 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 55 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind 

 PI. p. 83. 



A^ery near S. Kechujii, from which it differs by the smaller leaves, tlie 

 truncate calyx and the drupe which is purple and not white. 



Kanaka: Thomsm}] Sind: moutiis of tiie Indus near Karachi, Talhot ; sand-drifts 

 of the sea, Karachi, J'ican/'., Stor/iS, .')18 I — Disuub. Sea-shores of S. India and Sind ; 

 Cejlon ; warm sea-shores of both licmisphcrcs. 



* Ordeu LXXIIT. CAMPANULACE^. 



. Herbs, shrubs, or undershrubs, usually with milky juice. Leaves 

 usually alternate (nirely opposite or verticillate), entire or toothed 

 (rarely lobed); stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite (rarely dicccious), 

 axillary or terminal, solitary, subpaniculale or racemose ; bracts usually 

 small ; bracteoles (except in Si>Jtcnoi.lca). Calyx-tube adnate to the 



