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154. ANISORAMPHUS, DC. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre calyeulate-imbricate, tlie 

 scales broadly linear, the outer 2-ranked, short ; inner sub-2- 

 seriate, elongate. Receptacle nude. Achenes oblong (im- 

 mature only seen), compressed, striate, beaked ; beaks of the 

 outer short, of the inner longer. Pappus pilose, multiseriate, 

 yellowish. — DC. Frod. vii. p. 251. 



A small plant, like a Hleracium or Hi/pochcBris. Radical leaves oblong, 

 glabi'ous, toothed ; cauline few, linear, entire. Stem 2-3-headed, glabrous 

 below, rougli with rigid, black bristles above. Involucre with similar 

 bristles. — Found on the Windvogelberg ; unknown to me. 



Order LXXT. CAMPANULACE^. 



Calyx 5-(3-10-)lobed, rarely truncate ; its tube wholly or 

 partly adhering to the ovary. Corolla monopetalous, rarely 

 cleft nearly or quite to the base, regular or irregular ; the 

 lobes valvate or induplicate in bud. stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, alternate with them, epigynous, free from corolla, 

 or rarely inserted on its tube ; filaments broad-based ; anthers 

 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 

 2-10-celled ; ovules many or few, or rarely solitary ; style 

 simple. Fruit a capsule or berry; rarely a drupe or nut. 

 Seeds albuminous. — Herbs or rarely shrubs, often with milky 

 acrid juice. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), mostly toothed, 

 sometimes lobed or much cut, without stipules. Plowers in 

 racemes, panicles or solitary. 



Tribe 1. Lobelie^. Corolla monopetalous, irregular, 1-2-Kpped, with 

 a split or rarely an entire tube, persistent. Anthers cohering in a tube 

 round the stigma ; pollen ovoid, smooth. Style glabrous ; stigma girt 

 with a circle of hairs, mostly 2-lobed. Juice milky. (Gren. 1-9.) 



Capsule 1-celled, elongate, 3-valved 1. Grammatotheca. 



Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved ; valves septiferous, 

 rarely opening by pores. 

 Tube of corolla cleft down one side to the base. 

 Corolla subregular, 5-parted or lobed. 



Corolla-lobes lanceolate ; 2 lower anthers 



bristle-tipped 2. Metzleeta. 



Corolla-lobes ovate ; anthers all bearded . 3. Monopsis. 

 Corolla 1-labiate, 5-fid ; lobes equal ; 2 lower 



anthers bearded 4. Isolobus, 



Corolla 2-labiate. 



Upper hp of corolla 3-, lower 2-fid; anthers 



all bearded 5. Paeasteanthfs. 



Upper lip of corolla 2-, lower 3-fid ; anthers 



all, or the 2 lower bearded 6. Lobelia. 



Corolla 3-parted ; the 2 upper petals separate, 

 clawed ; 3 lower connate hito a 3-fid lip ; 



anthers all bearded 7. Dobeowskta. 



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