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4. Fruit linear. All anthers hairy at the apex. — Species i. South Africa, 



(Under Lobelia L.) Grammatotheca Presl 



Fruit roundish 5 



5. Anthers and stigmas ripe at the same time. All anthers hairy at the apex. 



Odd sepal in front. — Species 12. South and East Africa and Comoro 

 Islands. Some are used as ornamental plants. (Including Dobrowskya 

 Presl and Parasiranthus Don, under Lobelia L.) Monopsis Salisb. 

 Anthers ripe before the stigmas. Odd sepal usually behind. — Species 120. 

 Southern and tropical Africa, Madeira, and Azores. Some are poisonous 

 or are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. (Including Lsolobus A. 

 DC. and Mcizlcria Presl) Lobelia L. 



6. Filaments adnate to the corolla on one side to beyond the middle. Corolla 



white. — Species I. Naturalized in the Island of Reunion. A poisonous 



and medicinal plant Isotoma Lindl. 



Filaments free from the corolla or shortly adnate to it. Corolla blue or 

 white. — Species 10. South and North-west Africa. (Including 

 Enchysia Presl) Laurentia Neck. 



7. (i.) Flowers distinctly irregular. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit opening locul- 



icidally and septicidally. — Species 30. South and Central Africa. Several 



species have edible tubers. [Subfamily CYPHIOIDEAE.] Cyphia Berg 



Flowers regular or nearly so. [Subfamily CAMPANULOIDEAE.] . . 8 



8. Corolla imbricate in the bud. Style very short, without collecting hairs. 



Ovary 2-celled ; placentas thick, suspended from the top of the partition. 

 Fruit opening by a lid. Flowers in spikes, small, greenish or yellowish. 

 — Species i. Tropics and Egypt. [Tribe SPHENOCLEEAE.] 



Sphenoclea Gaertn. 



Corolla valvate in the bud. Style with hairs or viscid glands for collecting 



the pollen. [Tribe CAMPANULEAE.] 9 



9. Carpels 5, as many as the sepals or stamens, and alternating with them. 10 

 Carpels as many as the sepals or stamens, but opposite to them, or fewer. 11 



10. Corolla rotate or broadly campanulate, deeply cleft, yellow or red. Fila- 



ments broadened at the base. Fruit opening laterally by many trans- 

 verse slits. Large herbs or undershrubs. Leaves elliptical. Flowers 

 large, in panicles. — Species 2. Madeira. Used as ornamental plants. 



Musschia Dumort. 



Corolla tubular or narrowly campanulate. Filaments not broadened. 



Fruit opening loculicidally by 5 apical valves. Seeds few. Small 



herbs. Leaves linear. Flowers small, solitarj^ or in clusters. — Species 



4. South Africa Microcodon A. DC. 



11. Filaments adnate to the corolla halfway or higher up. Fruit opening 



by an apical hd 12 



Filaments free from the corolla or nearly so 13 



12. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cell, suspended from the top of the cell. Flowers 



blue, in raceme- or panicle-like cymose inflorescences. Leaves linear. 

 Herbs or undershrubs Siphocodon Turcz. 



