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long, narrow, pubescent without, villous within; lobes valvately indupli- 

 cate-winged, -25 to 4 in. long, lanceolate, prominently veined, villous- 

 hairy within. Stamens erect, free, inserted around the ovary-sheath, 

 •75 in. long; filaments thin, anthers ovate, introrse, cells parallel, 

 connective produced above with short divergent lobes. Ovary 2-celled, 

 crowned with the oblong bifid stigma which is surrounded by a long- 

 fringed sheath ; ovules 1 in each cell, erect. Fruit a 2-celled ovate- 

 globose succulent drupe, -3 to -5 in. in diam., depressed above, ribbed, 

 endocarp bony. Lamk. 111. t. 124, fig. 2 ; DC. Prod. VII. 505 ; Hook, 

 f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 8 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 2732 ; 

 Blume Bijdr. 730 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 580 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI. ii. 212, For. Fl. II. 84; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 421; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 54; Cooke Bomb. Flora, II. 69; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. IV. 86. -S'. sericea, Forst. ; DC. I.e. 506 ; Blume Bijdr. 

 750 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 581. S. Taccada, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 15, 

 Fl. Ind. I. 527; DC. I.e. 505; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 134; 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 250 ; Wall. Cat. 1314 ; Wight 111. t. 

 137. S. Lobelia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 250 ; De Vriese 

 Goodenov. 20-26 and in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 20, not of Linn. 

 S. Plumieri, Blume Bijdr. 730, not of Vahl. S. montana, Lab. Sert. 

 Austr.-Caled. 41, t. 42; DC. I.e. 506. S. velutina, Presl in Eel. 

 Haenck. II. 67 ; DC. I.e. 506. S. Bela-Modagam, Roem. and Sch. 

 Syst. V. 163; DC. I.e. 505. S. Leschenaultii, DC. I.e. 506. S. 

 macrocalyx, De Vriese Gooden. 26, tab. 3, figs. 1-4. ;S. chlorantha and 

 S. Lamhertiana, De Vriese, I.e. 27, 28. S. lativaga, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. II. 1054. Lobelia friitescens, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 148. L. Taccada, 

 Gsertn. Fruct. I. 119, tab. 25, fig. 5. L. Plumieri, Burm. Fl. Ind. 186, 

 not of Linn. Cerbera Salutaris, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 136. Buglossum 

 litoreum, Rumph. Herb. Amb. IV. 116, t. 54. "Bela-Modagam," 

 Eheede Hort. Mai. IV. t. 59. 



Penang : Wallich 1314. Malacca : Ch-iffith. Johgee : Jensen. 

 Singapore : Sir B. Schomburgk 82 ; G. King ; G. Thomson. — Distrib. 

 Sea-shores of India from Sind to Ceylon ; Burma ; Malay Islands and 

 eastwards to Australia and Polynesia. 



Order LXIV. CAMPANULACE^. 



Herbs, undershrubs, rarely shrubs ; erect or climbing ; often with 

 milky juice. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, entire toothed or 

 rarely lobed, no stipules. Liflorescence axillary or terminal ; flowers 

 solitary, racemose or paniculate ; bracts small ; bracteoles none (present 

 in Sjjhcnoclea). Calyx- tube adnate to the ovary, limb few- or many- 



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