Victorian Plants. 



LEEWENHOEKIA. 



1525. Leaves mostly from narrow-elliptical to lanceolar- 

 or spatular-obovate. 



Minute, erect, copiously beset with short glandule -bear ing 

 hairlets ; leaves very short ; flowers axillary, solitary, 

 forming with the upper leaves a foliate corymb or 

 raceme ; corolla very small, without any appendages, 

 all its lobes white ; stigmas very narrow, divergent ; 

 fruit almost globular, one-celled, terminated by the 

 persistent lobes of the calyx ; placentary spherical ; 

 seeds numerous, turgidly ovate, streaked and dotted. 

 Figure 93. L. chibia. 



Leaves mostly from cordate- to rhomboidal-orbicular. 



Minute, erect, copiously beset with short glandule-bearing 

 hairlets ; leaves very short, the upper sessile ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, forming with the upper leaves a 

 foliate corymb or raceme ; corolla very small, without 

 any appendages, its very minute fifth lobe dark- 

 purplish ; fruit almost globular, one-celled, many seeded, 

 terminated by the persistent lobes of the calyx. 



L. Sonderi. 



CA3VIPANULACEAE. 

 WAZZZiENBCRCZA. 



1526. Flowers on long stalks, singly terminating stems or 

 branches. 



A perennial herb, flowering already during the first year 

 of its growth, or in a minute state passing away as an 

 annual, from dwarf to rather tall, usually somewhat beset 

 with spreading short hairlets ; lower leaves scattered or 

 some opposite, mostly from obovate or spatular to harrow- 

 lanceolar ; upper leaves gradually more linear and distant 

 or quite undeveloped, all entire or slightly denticulated ; 

 flowers from minute to rather large ; lobes of the calyx 

 and corolla as well as the number of stamens five or also 

 not rarely four ; corolla blue or outside pale, exceptionally 



Suite white, its tube about as long as the calyx or 

 Dnger, hardly shorter than its lobes, only slightly turgid ; 

 filaments much dilated towards the base ; stigmas and 

 ovulary-cells three or rarely two ; fruit above the calyx- 

 tube valvular-dehiscent at its short free summit. " Aus- 

 tralian Bellflower." W. gracilis. 



