Order 65. Goodenovice. 167 



tinged with purple in short cymes, calyx segments oblong, en- 

 larging in fruit, stigma hairy, drupe roundish, fleshy, white. 

 Bhadrak. 



Close to the sea in the Rutnagherry Collectorate, and widely dis- 

 tributed in similar situations (H.). 



It is easilj recognized by the cleft one-sided corolla. 



ORDER 66. CAMPANULACE^. Bell flowers. 



Herbs or undershrubs, calyx superior, seeds very many. In 

 this two orders are included which outwardly are very different, 

 as in the Lobelias the corolla is irregular. The stamens are 

 inserted on a ring at the base of the corolla. Canterbury bells 

 and the harebell of the poets are the best-known plants of the 

 order. 



TRIBE LOBELIA. Corolla 2-lipped, anthers united. 



1. LOBELIA. Leaves alternate, corolla oblique, tube cleft to 

 the base behind, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, capsule 2- 

 valved. 



TRIBE CAMPANULE.E. Corolla generally bell-shaped, anthers 

 free, filaments dilated at the base. 



2. WAHLENBERGIA. Ovary top-shaped, stigma 3-lobed. 



1. LOBELIA. 



1. L. trigona. Smooth, small, rather straggling, leaves 

 roundish or ovate crenated, flowers blue or white, pedicels 

 angled, stamens protruding through the cleft back of the 

 corolla, capsule oval. 



Konkan, in rice-fields, &c. At Mahableshwar and in the Panch 

 Mahals. Small specimens might be taken for a Vandellia, but for 

 the protruding stamens. 



2. L. nicotiance folia. Five or six feet high, stem hollow, 

 leaves mostly radical, very long, lanceolate, flowers white in 

 racemes, capsule roundish, covered by the calyx. Dawal, dev- 

 nalj boknal. 



Common on the Ghauts : a handsome plant. 



The whole plant is exceedingly acrid, and its touch to be avoided. 

 A West Indian species, L. longifolia, is described as much worse. 



" Where fell Lobelia's suffocating breath 



Loads the dark pinion of the gale with death." E. Darwin. 



* L. radicans (Pratia r. D.). Annual, smooth, creeping, leaves 



