Pratia. | CAMPANULACES. 399 
glabrous. Flowers on very short axillary peduncles or almost 
sessile, large, }-in. long, pale-yellow, sweet-scented. Calyx- -tube 
broadly curbinate : lobes narrow-triangular. Corolla 4-4in. long ; 
tube very long, cylindrical, swollen at the base; lobes short, 
spreading or recurved. Anthers glabrous, the 2 lower each tipped 
with a flat rigid bristle with some smaller ones at its base. Berry 
globose, ++ in. diam. Seeds very numerous, minute. 
SourtH Istanp : Nelson—Gordon’s Nob, Raglan Mountains, Wairau Gorge, 
1. F. C.; Acheron and Clarence Valleys, Travers; Mount Murchison, W. 
Townson! Mount Percival, 7. ff. C. Canterbury—Mount Torlesse, Haast ! 
Enys! Petrie! T. F. C.; mountains at the head of the Broken River, Hnys ! 
Arthur’s Pass and Waimakariri Glacier, Kirk! T. F.C. Otago—Mount Car- 
drona and the Hector Mountains, Petrie ! 3000-5500 ft. December— 
February. 
A very distinct species, at once recognised by the long cylindrical corolla- 
tube. 
3. LOBELIA, Linn. 
Herbs of very various habit, or (in species not found in New 
Zealand) rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, toothed, seldom entire. 
Flowers axillary and solitary, or in terminal racemes. Calyx-tube 
adnate to the ovary; limb 5-partite. Corolla oblique, split to the 
base at the back, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-partite, usually erect, lower 
3-lobed, spreading. Staminal tube free from the corolla or rarely 
adnate to it at the very base; anthers connate, all or the 2 lower 
only tipped with bristles. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous; style 
filiform ; stigma shortly bifid, often surrounded by a ring of hairs. 
Capsule 2-celled, opening loculicidally within the calyx-lobes into 
2 valves. Seeds usually numerous, minute. 
A large genus of over 200 species, rare in Kurope and Western Asia, abund- 
ant in most other regions except the very coldest. 
Stems 6-18 in., erect or decumbent. Leaves linear to obo- 
vate. Capsule linear-clavate . . 1. L. anceps. 
Stems 1-6 in., creeping and rooting. Leaves 4-ti in., obo- 
vate to orbicular, sinuate-dentate. Capsule pate 
obovoid .. 2. L. linneoides. 
Stems 2-5 in., tortuous among shingle. Leaves 4- -lin., 
orbicular- obovate, deeply toothed or lobed. Capsule 
large, broadly ovoid be .. 3. L. Roughii. 
1. L. anceps, Linn. f. Suppl. 395.—An erect or decumbent 
much or sparingly branched leafy herb, everywhere perfectly 
glabrous. Stems 6-18 in. long, flattened or angular or trigonous, 
sometimes winged. Leaves very variable in shape and size, 1-3 in. 
long, the lower ones usually linear-obovate or obovate, gradually 
narrowed into decurrent petioles, the upper lanceolate or ligulate, 
gradually passing into the floral leaves, which are smaller, ‘sessile 
and linear, all sparingly toothed or nearly entire. Flowers small, 
on short axillary peduncles. Calyx-tube cylindrical, much longer 
