198 campanulacEjE* [Wahlenbergia. 



Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 21, with all the synonyms there adduced. An 

 erect or decumbent annual, branching from the base, from a few inches to 1 

 foot high, glabrous or pubescent at the base. Leaves alternate, mostly linear, 

 1 to near 2 in. long and slightly toothed ; the lowest often much shorter, 

 oblong or even obovate, and narrowed into a petiole at the base ; the upper- 

 most small and distant. Flowers few, small, on slender pedicels of \ to 1 in., 

 forming a loose terminal dichotomous panicle. Calyx-tube about \\ lines 

 long ; the lobes not so long. Corolla campanulate, about 5 lines diameter, 

 lobed to the middle. Capsule shortly 3-valved at the top. 



In rice-fields, Champion, and others. Very common in tropical and subtropical Asia, ex- 

 tending westward to tropical Africa, eastward to Australia, and northward to Loochoo. 



Order LXII. GOODENIACE.E. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; the limb 3- to 5 -lobed or entire. Corolla 

 irregular, slit open on the upper side, 5 -lobed. Stamens 5, alternate with 

 the lobes of the corolla, and inserted at its base ; anthers opening in longitu- 

 dinal slits, free or rarely united in a ring round the style. Ovary usually 2- 

 celled, with 1 or more ovules in each. Style simple ; the stigma surrounded 

 by a cup-shaped or peltate indusium, usually ciliate on the margin. Fruit 

 either a capsule opening in 2 valves, or an indehiscent drupe or nut. Seeds 

 usually with a fleshy albumen and straight embryo. — Herbs or small shrubs, 

 the juice not milky. Leaves usually alternate, without stipules. Flowers 

 axillary, or in terminal spikes or racemes, rarely paniculate. 



A small Order, almost entirely Australian, a few maritime species extending into tropical 

 Asia or South America. 



1. SOaSVOLA, Linn. 



Corolla open on the upper side to the base, deeply 5 -lobed. Anthers free. 

 Ovary 1- to 4 -celled, with 1 ovule in each. Fruit dry or succulent, indehis- 

 cent, 1- to 4-seeded. The other characters, habit, and geographical range as 

 in the family, of which this is the largest and widest-spread genus. 



1. S. Lobelia, Linn. ; Vriese in KruidJc. Arch. ii. 20. An erect shrub, 

 with a thick, almost succulent stem ; the branches, leaves, and inflorescence 

 either silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous, but always with a tuft of woolly or 

 long silky hairs in the axils. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblong, 3 to 5 in. 

 long, rounded and very obtuse at the top, quite entire, narrowed at the base 

 into a very short broad petiole. Cymes axillary, very much shorter than the 

 leaves. Calyx about 3 lines long, including the 5 oblong-linear lobes, rather 

 longer than the tube. Corolla more or less pubescent and always hairy in- 

 side ; the tube 5 or 6 lines long ; the lobes spreading, bordered on each side 

 with a narrow wing folded inwards in the bud. Drupe ovoid or nearly glo- 

 bular, hard, 2-celled, about 4 lines long. — S. Koenigii, Vahl ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2732, and the six following species in A. DC. Prod. vii. 505 . 8. lativaga, Hance 

 in Walp. Ann. ii. 1055, and the synonyms adduced by Hook, and Thorns, in 

 Journ. Soc. Linn. ii. 8. 



Sands and rocks of the seashore, chiefly near Saywan and on the south shore, Champion, 

 Wilford, Wright, Hance, Seemann. A common seacoast plant in the Old World within 



