/•i LXXIII. CAMPANUL.iCE.i:. 



nerves beneath, marfrius flat, entire or irregularly crenate-deutate. 

 I'lowers in lax cymes terminating most of the branches ; pedicels slender, 

 sometimes 1 in. long. Calyx ^-1 in. long ; tube densely hispid, 

 turbinate or subhemispheric ; lobes about as long as the tube, lanceolate, 

 acute, apiculate, the margins scarcely thickened. Corolla blue, deeply 

 5-partife ; segments linear-oblong, slightly exceeding the calyx. Seeds 

 not much longer than broad. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 428 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 133; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 1(J2. — Flowers : 

 Nov. 



KoNKAN : Sforks], DalzeU\ Kanaka: Birchi (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — Distuib. 

 ludia (W. PeniiiBula). 



3. ^VAHLENBERGIA, Schrad. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate (rarely oi:)posite). 

 Flowers usually blue and nodding, solitary or variously paniculate ; 

 peduncles terminal, axillary or leaf-opposed. Calyx-tube adnate to 

 the ovary, hemispheric, turbinate or obconic-oblong ; limb 5 (rarely 

 3-4) -partite. Corolla campanulate, infundibuliform, tubular or subrotate, 

 usually 5 (rarely 3-4) -fid to or below the middle. Stamens free from 

 the corolla ; filaments usually dilated at the base ; anthers free. Ovary 

 inferior or ^-superior, 2-5-celled ; ovules numerous; styles cylindric; 

 stigma 2-5-fid with narrow lobes. Capsule inferior or ^-superior, erect, 

 dehiscing loculicidally within the persistent calyx-lobes into as many 

 valves as there are cells. Seeds numerous, small. — Distrib. Chiefly in 

 the southern hemisphere, especially 8. Africa, a few in Tropical America 

 and the Mediterranean region, one widely dispersed in Western Europe ; 

 species about 80. 



1. V'''ahlenbergia gracilis, Schrad. Blumenh. (1827) p. 38, in obs. ; 

 A. DC. 3Ionof/r. Campan. (1830) p. 142. A perennial herb 6-18 in. 

 high, erect or decumbent, branched from the base ; stems and braiiches 

 glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves sessile, 4-1 1 by jV"! ^^•' linp^i"- 

 oblong, almost entire (except the lower leaves w hich are often more or less 

 toothed), usually glabrous above, more or less hairy beneath. Flowers 

 in lax cymose panicles ; bracts linear, acute ; pedicels very long, slender. 

 Calyx 5-| in. long, usually glabrous ; tube turbinate ; lobes yV— g" ^^' 

 long, linear from a triangular base, erect, persistent. Corolla blue, 

 ^-k in. long, campaiuilate, divided below the middle into 5 spreading, 

 oblong, subacute lobes. Filaments much enlarged and pubescent at the 

 base. Capsule ^-}^ in. long, tapering into the pedicel, turbinate, crowned 

 with the calyx-lobes. Seeds ellipsoid, slightly compressed, smooth, 

 yellowish-brown. Fl. B. L v. 3, p. 429; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 58; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 162. WoMenberc/ia 

 ar/restis, A. DC. Prodr. v. 7, p. 434; Wight, Icon. t. 1175; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 134. Campanula deJiiscens, l^oxb. Jlort. Beng. p. 85; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 103. — Flowers : Dec.-Feb. Veen. Kerdi. 



Not very common, founrl on tlie hiVbest Gh;if:s. Konkan: Mathcran, Noirne. 

 Pk/can : Maliablosliwar, Caokc I, in tlip rocky bed of tlie Vcnna above the fall, 

 (rraham; KLaiidula, Kanitkcrl ; Lanoli, Ji'ooilrotcl — Distkib. Throughout ludia; 

 Ceylon, East Asia, Australia, N. Zealand, S. Africa. 



