470 LXXV. CAMPANULACEiB (hEMSLEY). [Lolelta. 



in racemes of flowers. Radical leaves petiolate rotundate entire, about 

 3 or 4 lines in diameter, passing gradually into sessile linear-oblong 

 distantly and callously serrate cauline ones an inch or more long, and 

 in the upper part into bracts. Flowers 6-8 lines long, on slender 

 pedicels about an inch long. Calyx glabrous, the linear- lanceolate lobes 

 less than a third as long as the corolla-tube. Upper anthers glabrous at 

 the back, lower two bearded at the tip. 



Sootli Central. Island at Victoria Falls, Dr. Kirk! 



The above description applies only to the Tropical African plant, which appears 

 to differ only from the Natal specimens in the upper anthers being glabrous on the 

 back. 



17. Xf. lavendulacea, Kl. in Peters Mossamh. Bot. p. 302. An 

 erect densely branched annual 1-1 ■§• ft. high, with slender twiggy 

 slightly scabrous angular branches. Leaves glaucous linear obtuse nar- 

 rowed at the base, with a few distant sinuous teeth, the lower ones 

 2 in. long by 2 lines broad, the upper ones bract-like and much smaller. 

 Flowers numerous at the ends of the branches and solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves or bracts, on slender compressed peduncles about 

 half an inch long. Calyx slightly scabrous, lobes lanceolate- subulate, 

 1 line long. Corolla blue, less than half an inch long, the upper lobes 

 linear acute hairy on the inside, the lower lobes ovate acute glabrous. 

 Upper anthers glabrescent, lower ones bearded at the tip. Capsule 

 glabrous, 10-ribbed. — The description chiefly from Klotzsch. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Peters ! 



Sonder {Flora capensis, iii. p. 546) refers this to his var. y. secunduta of L. iri- 

 qicetra, Linn., to which species it may belong, but it has a very different aspect, and 

 the material is insufficient to determine the question. 



18. Zi. Btellarloides, Benth. et HooTc. Gen. PI. ii. pars ii. p. 353. 

 A much-branched annual or perennial. Stems weak slender angular, 

 more or less clothed with recurved prickly bristles, 1-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves opposite, or the upper ones alternate, sessile or narrowed into a 

 short petiole, linear- lanceolate oblong or ovate oblong, 1-1-^ in. long, 

 obtuse or acute, mucronate, more or less scabrous especially on the mar- 

 gin and midrib, distantly dentate- serrulate or almost crenate-serrulate 

 and constricted where the teeth occur ; teeth mucronate or terminating 

 in a hard white incurved callus. Flowers axillary, solitary, borne on 

 slender scabrous peduncles longer than the leaves and growing out after 

 the flowers have withered. Calyx-lobes scabrous linear-oblong mucronu- 

 late spreading about half as long as the corolla, but growing out consi- 

 derably as the fruit matures. Corolla about half an inch long, yellow in 

 the Abyssinian specimens (Schimper). All the anthers bearded at the 

 tip. Capsule oblong, nearly smooth, about 3 lines long. — Dobrmvskia 

 stellarioides, Presl, Prodr. Lob. p. 10 ; DC. Prodr. vii. p. 356 ; Paras- 

 tranthus stellarioideSj Vatke, in Linnasa xxxviii. p. 717. 



xrile Ziana. Ankobar, Auyssinia, Monastery of Tliecla Haimanot, Dr. Roth! 

 Tigre, Schimper ! 



This species also occurs at Natal, where it has blue flow(r.s. 



