76 LXXIIT. CAMPAXULACEn:. 



1. Campanula Alphonsii, Wall Cat. (1828) 1290. A decumbeut 

 herb ; stems many from the ba^^e. obscurely angled, wiry, softly hairy, 

 reaching 15 in. long. Leaves ^-1 by ^-^ in., subsessile, ovate-elliptic, 

 subacute, rugose, hairy on both surfaces and with toothed margins. 

 Howers solitary or in lax terminal cymose panicles ; pedicels hairy. 

 Calyx hairy, ■^-f'y in. long ; lobes j'^^ in. long, triangular, acute, some- 

 times (in the Bombay specimens nsucdlij) with small alternating teeth, 

 the margins entire or sometimes toothed. Corolla pubescent outside, 

 reaching nearly ^ in. long, divided about y-way down ; lobes oblong, 

 subacute, filaments dilated and finely pubescent at the base. Anthers 

 g in. long. Style \ in. long, stout ; stigma with 3 narrow, at length 

 revolute lobes ^ in. long. Capsule dehiscing by valves at the base. 

 Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, J^ in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 440 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 1177; Hook. f. & Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 2 (1858) p. 24; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 162.— Flowers : Oct. 



Very rare. DaLcU, witlioiit locality in Herb. Kew. ! Deccan : Sinhtigad Fort, 

 12 miles from Poona, Bhiva\ — Distuib. India (W. Peninsula). 



A somewhat variable plant. Mr. C. B. Clarke remarks (Fl. B. I. 1. c.) that the 

 leaves of Dalzell's single specimen are larger than those of the typo. This is also the 

 case in the specimens from Sinhagad Fori in the Deccan, the leaves of which are 

 similar to those of Dalzell's specimen. VViglit (Icon. t. 1177) shews the flowers 

 solitary and terminal, although in some of the specimens from his own herbarium they 

 are more or less paniculate. They are paniculate in all the Bombay specimens. 

 Wight's figure also shows a creeping rhizome from which the brandies ascend. This 

 is not the case in any of the specimens seen by me, in all of which the stems are 

 tufted. 



Order LXXIY. PLUMBAGINACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs often maritime. Leaves: radical rosulate ; cnuline 

 alternate ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, sessile or shortly 

 j)edicelled, on simple or branched scapes or i)ediincles, solitary, capitate 

 or spicate, the spikes solitary or panicled, often unilateral ; bracts 

 usually rigid, dry, with scarious margins. Caly.x inferior, gamosepalous, 

 tubular or infundibuliform, o-10-ribbed, often hyaline between the ribs ; 

 limb more or less distinctly 5-lobed. Coi'olla hypogynous, gamopetalous, 

 hypocrateriform ; or petals nearly or wholly free, oblanceolate or 

 obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and opposite the corolla-lobes 

 or petals, adnate to the tube or base of the claw, or inserted with the 

 ])etals on a narrow hypogynous ring. Ovary free, 1-celled, often 

 5-sulcate ; styles 5, free from the base or more or less connate; ovule 

 solitary, anatropous, suspended from a long basal funicle. Fruit in- 

 cluded within the calyx (rarely exserted), dry, dehiscent or indehiscent. 

 Seed filling the cell, pendidous from the apex of the funicle or more or 

 less adnate to it ; testa membranous ; albumen farinaceous, copious, 

 scantv, or 0. — DisxRin. More or less throughout the world, chiefly 

 maritime or iu saline or rocky deserts ; genera 8 ; species about 200. 



St vies 5, free from base or nearly so 1 . St.atice. 



fcilvlcs connate throughout tiieir entire length. 



Calyx densely clothed witii stalked glamls 2. Pi-iMnAco. 



Calvx cglandular 3. Vogelia. 



