Lobelia.] Lxxv. campanulace^ (hemsley). 465 



Calyx-lobes subulate more than half as long as the 



corolla-tube 9. L. umbrosa. 



Calyx-lobes subulate, not half as long as tlie co- 



roUa-tube 10. L. Mclleri. 



Calyx-lobes linear about one-third as long as the 



corolla 11, L.fervens. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, bristly at the back . . . 12. L. chireensis. 

 Stems erect usually more than six inches high, terete 

 or ol)scurely angled. 

 Stem relatively stout and herbaceous. 



Cauline leaves very small, acute, with one or two 



deep teeth on each side 13. L. exilis. 



Cauline leaves about an inch long, linear-oblong 



•obtuse, callously toothed li. L. seiiegaknsis. 



Stem slender and woody. . 



Calyx-lobes equalling the corolla 15. L. mcda. 



Calyx-lobes muoh shorter than the corolla-tube . 16. L. natalensis. 

 Calyx-lobes about a line long, scabrous . . .17. L. lavendulacea. 

 Leaves mostly opposite ; all the anthers bearded at the 



tip 18. Z. siellarioides. 



1. Zi. Rhynchopetalum, Remsl. A tall woody monocarpic (?) 

 plant with the habit of a palm, having a stout hollow nnbranched 

 stem 12-15 ft. high, naked in the lower pai-t when in flower, densely 

 leafy towards the top, and terminating in a long simple dense spiciform 

 bracteate raceme of greyish violet flowers. Leaves crowded, alternate 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acnte, entire, 1-2 ft. long, clothed with a 

 grey woolly tomentum when young, ultimately qnite glabrous, almost 

 as broad at the base as in the middle, of a papery texture, traversed by 

 a thick fleshy midrib, gradually passing into bracts. Flowers and 

 bracts clothed with a dense soft felt-like tomentum ; bracts leafy in 

 the lower part of the inflorescence, smaller upwards, but always much 

 longer than the flowers. Flowers 2-3 in. long, shortly pedicellate ; 

 calyx- lobes about half as long as the corolla, which finally splits into 5 

 free petals. Stamens equalling the style but much shorter than the 

 corolla ; filaments free at the base, connate above the middle ; anthei's 

 connate around the stigma, the two lower ones bearded. Capsule 

 oblong-spherical, prominently 10-ribbed, crowned by the long persistent 

 calyx-lobes. — Bhynchopetalum montanuw, Fresen. in Bot. Zeit. 1838, p. 

 603, Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. Q>(j, t. 4 ; DC. Prodr. vii. p. 396. Tupa 

 Ulnjncliopetalum, Hochst. Hb. Schimp. Abyss, n. 1263 ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 ii. p. 9. 



irile Iiand. Abyssinia, in Mt. Backit, 11,000-13,000 ft., Schimper ! Petit! 



The lower leaves of this species are unknown to us, and it is possible they differ 

 very much from the upper ones. In Hb. Kew. is a sheet with flowers of this species, 

 and a leaf exactly like those of L. Giherroa ; possibly the specimens of the two 

 species were accidentally mixed. The name 'montana' being already occupied in the 

 genus, the second name has to be adopted. 



2. Zi. G-lberroa, Rcmsl. Of the same habit as the last, but of 

 smaller stature. Leaves crowded, sessile, oblong-obovate or lanceolate, 

 l|-2 ft. long, very much narrowed at the base, irregularly mucronately 

 serrulate, membranous with a thick midrib and prominently veined, 

 glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Flowers and bracts with a short 



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