Pratia.'] LXXX. CAMPANULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 423 



Leaves %-$ in. diam., denticulate. Peduncles |-1| in., distant, none from the upper 

 axils. Calyx-teeth % in., linear. Corolla green with pink marks. Anthers 5, nearly 

 black ; 2 surmounted by 1 bristle each, 3 puberulous. Berry ^ in., shortly ellipsoid, 

 finally smooth, black. Seeds compressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 



2, P. montana, Has.sk. Cat. Boyor. 106 ; glabrous, branches long, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate tapering at both ends. Lobelia montana, Reinw. ; Blume 

 Bijd. 728 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 386. Speirema montanum, H. f. $ T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 27. Piddingtonia patens and montana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 573. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft. ; from Nipal to Mishmi, common. UPPER 

 ASSAM ; Patkoy Mts., Griffith. DISTRIB. Java. 



A tall, rambling herb. Leaves- 4 by 1^ in., finely serrate. Peduncles 1-2 in., 

 often 1 from every axil, nearly to the ends of the brandies. Calyx-teeth - in., linear. 

 Corolla green with purple marks, hairy within. Anthers 5, yellow ; 2 surmounted by 

 several bristles, 3 puberulous. "Berry \-\ in., globose, black-purple, Seeds com- 

 pressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 



2. LOBELIA, Linn. 



Herbs, often tall, or (non-Indian species) shrubs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 

 rarely subentire. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, sometimes subracemose. 

 Calyx superior, limb 5- partite. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-partite, 

 lower 3-lobed. Staminal tube free or nearly so ; anthers tipped with bristles, 3 

 upper naked. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; placentae hemispheric ; ovules nume- 

 rous; stigma shortly bifid. Capsule, loculicidally 2-valved within the calyx- 

 teeth. Seeds very many, minute, ellipsoid, compressed or trigonous. Species 

 200, rare in Europe and W. Asia. 



L. chenopodifolia, Wall. Cat. 1312 (L. Cliffortiana, Linn. Hort, Cliff, t. 2" ; DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 372), cultivated from Roxburgh's time in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, is 

 not indigenous in India. 



SECT. I. Holopog on, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 552 (char, narrowed to the 

 Indian species). Small herbs. Leaves 5-!^ in. Corolla small ; lobes unequal. 

 Anthers all barbate on the apex nearly equally. 



t Seeds distinctly trigonous. 



1. Zi. trig-ona, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 506; glabrous, leaves ovate subsessile, 

 pedicels mostly longer than the leaves. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 359 ; Wight Ic. t. 1170 ; 

 H,f. # T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 27, partly ; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 133, excl. 

 syn. L. triangulata, Roxb. Hort. Benq. 16. L. stipularis, Roth Nov. Sp. 144 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1309. L. gratioloides, Roxb. ; A. DC. I c. 387. Lobelia sp., Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 281. 



The DECCAN and CEYLON, alt. 0-6000 ft., common. ASSAM, Simons. BENGAL ; 

 Dacca, Clarke. MERGUI, Griffith, n. 429. PEGU, M'Lelland. 



Annual; branches 6-12 in., ascending, rooting only near the base, more or less 

 3-angled. Leaves -f in. diam., denticulate. Corolla -| in. Capsule by ^ in., 

 ellipsoid, not tapering acutely to the pedicel. Seeds ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, 

 distinctly trigonous. Roth says that his L. stipularis was Heyne's L. zeylanica, of 

 which the authentic examples, both at Kew and the British Museum, are L, trigona ; 

 and Wallich (Cat. 1309) agrees. But Roth's description of L. stipularis fits the Ceylon 

 plant called below L. zeylanica, var. Walkeri ; and it is quite possible that Heyne may 

 have sent this to Roth. Benth. (Fl. Hongk. 196) unites with L. trigona (doubtingly) 

 L. chinensis, Lour., which is its nearest ally, but has narrower leaves and more divari- 

 cate branches. 



