944 Campanulaceae. 
small, borne on short peduncles opposite the leaves. Calyx-tube pilose 
ovoid; lobes 3 or 4 linear-lanceolate obscurely toothed. Corolla 3- 
or 4-lobed slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens 3. Capsule 
2-celled. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria; Damanhur; Tanta; Cairo. — N. v. Giza near 
Saqqara. 
It occurs also in Upper Guinea. 
1310. (2.) Wahlenbergia etbaica (Schweinf.) Vatke in Linnaea 
XXXVIII (1874), p. 435. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Illustr. Flor. d'hg., 
p. 101 no. 664. — Laurentia etbaica Schweinfurth in Verhandlg. 
zool.-botan. Ges. Wien XVIII (1868), p.683. — An annual with an 
almost unbranched stem, leafy and hispid in the lower half, leafless 
and glabrous above, about 20 em high. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
ovate, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, about 5 cm long by 8 mm 
broad, the upper ones acute, hispid along the midrib on the under 
surface, margin irregularly undulate-crenate ciliate. Flowers small 
white, terminal and lateral distant. Calyx-tube glabrous the elongated 
slender lobes scarcely as long as the tube, lanceolate acute entire. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Gebel Sheykh Embarak near Feshn. (Deflers.). 
Also known from Soturba. 
538. (2.) Campanula Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, hemispherical, turbinate or ob- 
ovoid; limb deeply 5-lobed or partite, the sinuses furnished with 
flattened reflexed appendages or naked. Corolla campanulate, rarely 
funnel-shaped or nearly rotate, more or less deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 
free from the corolla; filaments usually dilated at the base; anthers 
free. Ovary inferior, 3- or 5-celled; ovules numerous; stigma 3- or 
5-fid, lobes narrow. Capsule crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, 
dehiscing laterally between the ribs in separate valves. — Perennial 
or rarely annual herbs of various habit, foliage and inflorescence. 
Flowers usually blue, rarély violet, pink or white. 
A genus of more than 200 species, widely dispersed in the northern 
hemisphere, and especially abundant in the eastern part of the Mediterranean 
region. 
A. Leaves sessile. 
Ei Calyx) spurred. J))) 0.0. &, Oo) Cienipierell 
Il. Calyx not spurred 2. 6s. .. . 10. 4 8 6. Hitinup; 
B. Liedves! short-petiolés, 2). ele ae 3. C, dimorphantha. 
