422 LXKX. CAMPANULACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Pratia. 



or irregular, tubular, rotate or campauulate ; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 

 4-6, alternating with the corolla-lobes, inserted with the corolla on the margin 

 of the epigynoiis disk (in Sphenoclea on the corolla-tube) ; anthers free or united 

 in a tube. Ovary 2- 5-celled ; placentas in the inner angle of the cell, many- 

 ovuled. Style cylindric ; stigma-lobes as many as o\ary-cells. Fruit capsular, 

 baccate or dry (in Sphenoclea spuriously circumsciss). Seeds very many, small, 

 ellipsoid, albuminous; embryo erect, radicle next the hilum. Species 1000, 

 scattered throughout the globe. 



TRIBE I. Lobelieoc. Corolla 2-lipped, cleft dorsally to the base. Anthers 

 connate. 



Berry indehiscent 1. PRATIA. 



Capsule 2-valved at the crown 2. LOBELIA. 



TEIBE II. Campanula 00, Corolla regular. Anthers free or imperfectly 

 connate. 



* Capsule loculicidal within the calyx-teeth. 



Small herbs; corolla very small stellately 5-partite; capsule i 



in. diam 3. CEPHALOSTIGMA. 



Corolla campanulate ; capsule altogether inferior, - \ in. . . . 4. WAHLENBERGIA. 



Corolla tubular inflated upwards ; capsule with a conical superior 



beak 5. LEPTOCODON. 



Corolla campanulate; capsule with a conical superior beak . . 6. CODONOPSIS. 



Capsule consisting of the conical beak, enclosed in the calyx-tube 7. CYANANTHUS. 



f * Fruit indehiscent or membranous, breaking up irregularly. 



Berry fleshy, crowned by a flat disk 8. CAMPANUM^KA. 



Slender prostrate herb ; flowers very small ; fruit small inferior, 



membranous 9. PERACARPA. 



Leaves large succulent ; flowers 2-ranked in a dense scorpioid 



spike 10. PENTAPHRAGMA. 



Flowers in a dense cylindric spike, capsule circumsciss . . . .11. SPHENOCLEA. 



*** Capsule dehiscent at the base or sides below the calyx-teeth. 



Corolla rotate, ovary 2-celled . 12. PHYTEUMA. 



Corolla campanulate rarely rotate, ovary 3-5-celled 13. CAMPANULA. 



1. PR ATX A, Gaud. 



Herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered. Calyx 

 inferior, limb 5-partite. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-partite, lower 3- 

 lobed. Staminal tube free or nearly so ; 2 lower anthers with 1 or more terminal 

 bristles, 3 upper naked. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; placentae hemispheric ; stigma 

 2-lobed or emarginate. Berry ellipsoid, crowned with the calyx-teeth. Seeds 

 very many, minute. Species 15, S. E. Asia, Australia, N. Zealand, and S. 

 America. 



1. P. foeg-onifolia, Lindl. in Hot. Reg. t. 1373; small, creeping, rooting, 

 pubescent, leaves petioled cordate-ovate. P. zeylanica, Hassh. Cat. Bogor. 106. 

 P. Nummularia, JKurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 210. Lobelia Nummularia, 

 Lamk. Diet. iii. 589. L. begonieefolia, Wall. Cat. 1306 ; in As. Res. xiii. 377 ; 

 in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 115. L. Horsfieldiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 ii. 577. Piddingtonia Nummularia, DC. Prodr. vii. 341 ; H. f. fy T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 26. Kapuntium Nummularium, Presl Prodr. Lob. 30. 



NIPAL, SIKKIM, BHOTAN, ASSAM, KHASIA MTS., and PEGU, alt. 2-7000 ft., frequent. 

 DISTRIB. Malaya, S. China. 



