Sphenoclea.'} Lxxv. CAMPANULACEiE (hemslet). 481 



1. S. zeylanlca, Gcertn. Fruct. i. p. 118, t. 24, fig. 5. An erect 

 glabrous annual, 1-4 ft. high, with a stout fleshy slightly branched 

 stem. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, from 1-G in. 

 long, according to the vigour of the plant. Flowers greenish yellow, 

 about 2. lines in diameter, in dense bracteate spikes from 1-3 in. long 

 —Wight 111. t. 138. 



Upper Guinea, ^u^o, Barter ; Cameroons River, 3/(7«n ! 



l^ower Guinea. Congo, Smith.' 



IVile Itand. Nubia, Kotschy. 



Mozamb. Sistr. Several places on the Zambesi, Kirk ! 



Also common in marshy places in Tropical Asia and America. 



7. CAMPANULA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 561. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, hemispherical, turbinate or ob- 

 ovoid ; limb deeply 5-lobed or partite, the sinuses furnished with 

 flattened reflexed appendages or naked. Corolla campanulate, rarely 

 fnnnel-shaped or nearly rotate, more or less deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 

 free from the corolla ; filaments usually dilated at the base ; anthers 

 free. Ovary inferior, 3- or 5-celled ; ovules numerous ; stigma 3- or 

 5-fid, lobes narrow. Capsule crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, 

 dehiscing laterally between the ribs in separate valves. — Perennial or 

 rarely annual herbs of various habit, foliage and inflorescence. Flowers 

 usually blue, rarely violet, pink or white. 



A genus of more than 200 species, widely dispersed in the northern hemisphere, 

 and especially abundant in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. 



Flowers dimorphic ; fertile ones very small, apetalous . . 1. C. dimorphanlha. 

 Flowers all petalous. 



Stems erect, furrowed, with distant leaves 2. C Quartiniana. 



Stems ascending or procumbent, with crowded leaves . . 3. C. rigidipila. 



1. C dimorpliantha, Schiueinfurth Beitr. Fl. jFthiop. p. 140. 

 An erect pubescent annual, G-9 in. high, branching from the base. 

 Leaves alternate, pubescent, crenulate-dentate, the lower ones ovate 

 or obovate, spathulate, narrowed into a distinct petiole, about an inch 

 long, the upper ones narrower, ovate-lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, ses- 

 sile. Flowers dimorphic ; fertile ones about a line long, arranged in 

 terminal and axillary cymes, apetalous and almost or quite closed ; 

 calyx pilose, lobes entire, lanceolate or linear subulate, inappendiculate; 

 sterile ones solitary and scattered along the simple stems, with a calyx 

 and corolla nearly 6 lines long. Corolla pubescent on the outside, 

 blue, equalling the calyx. Anthers linear ; filaments not dilated at the 

 base. Capsule of the fertile flowers erect, 3- or rarely 4.celled, many- 

 seeded. 



KTUe Xiand. Nubia, near the village of Farek, Ehrenherg ! 

 Also in Upper Egypt, Figari. 



The description is chiefly from Schweinfurth, the Kew specimens bearing only 

 fertile apetalous flowers. 



2. C. Quartlniana, Rich. Fl. Ah/Ps. ii. p. 5. Perennial, with an 

 erect branching furrowed hispid stem, a foot or more hitrli- Leaves 

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