428 LXXX. CAMPANULACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lobelia. 



often 15 ft. long, ending in a dense hairy spike, usually simple, though sometimes 

 divided. The leaves are thicker, more villous than those of L. nicotiancefolia, the 

 corolla often very hairy without. The milk of both species is intensely acrid. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



16. L. ?PUMILA, A. DC. Prodr. vii. 360; founded entirely on Burm. Fl. Ind. 186, 

 t. 60, fig. 3, a small Lobelia-like plant, from Coromandel, but with opposite lanceolate 

 leaves. 



3. CEPKALQSTI01VIA, A. DC. 



Small, erect, branched herbs, sparsely patently hairy. Leaves alternate, 

 subsessile, margin thickened entire waved or crisped. Floivers small, racemed 

 or panicled ; upper bracts often very small and pedicels filiform. Calyx 

 superior ; limb 5-partite. Corolla deeply 5-fid ; segments linear-lanceolate, 

 spreading stellately, blue or whitish. Ovary subglobose, 2-3-celled. Style 

 cylindric; stigma shortly obtusely 3-lobed. Capsule loculicidally 2-3-valved 

 within the persistent calyx-teeth. Seeds very many, small, ellipsoid, compressed 

 or trigonous. Species 9, 5 Indian, 3 Tropical African, 1 Brazilian. 



* Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, compressed) not trigonous. 



1. C. Schimperi, Hochst. ; A. Rich. FL Abyss, ii. 2 ; stem erect with 

 numerous horizontal branches above, leaves oblong and elliptic acute margins 

 undulate crisped recurved. C. hirsutum, H.f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 9, 

 partly ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 133 ; Vatke in Linncea, xxxviii. (1874), 699 ; 

 Hemsl. in Oliver Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 472, not of Edgew. Wahlenbergia peroti- 

 folia, W. $ A. Prodr. 405 ; A. DC. Prodr. vii. 434 ; Wight Ic. t. 842. Dentella 

 erecta, Roth Nov. Sp. 140. 



Throughout the DECCAN ; from Ceylon toKajpootana and ChotaNagpore ; common. 

 KUASIA and JAINTEA ; alt. 2-5000 ft., common. CEYLON. DISTRIB. E. Africa. 



Erect 4-15 in., patently pilose, the main stem simple nearly to the top of the 

 plant. Leaves f by \-^ in., narrowed at both ends, subsessile, sparsely patently 

 pilose or glabrescent. Pedicels \- f in., rarely longer. Calyx-tube patently pilose, 

 lobes ~ in., linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla in., blueish. Capsule ~ in. 

 diam., subglobose or obovoid. Seeds much longer than bread. 



2. C. flexuosum, //. /. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 9 ; stem erect 

 flexuose repeatedly dichotomous with ascending branches, leaves sessile ovate 

 and elliptic narrowed at both ends subobtuse thin. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 133. 



MALABAR; Concan, Dalzell, Stocks. Bababoodun hills, Law. 



Very closely allied to C. Schimperi, but instead of the rigid crisped habit, it is 

 flexuose with thin leaves and much longer capillary pedicels, as though it were C. 

 Schimperi growing in a moist shady place; calyx-teeth larger, - in. 



** Seeds trigonous. 



3. C. paniculatum, A. DC. Prodr. vii. 421 ; stem repeatedly dividing 

 upwards, leaves oblong narrowed at both ends, panicles loose, pedipels capillary, 

 calyx glabrous, teeth linear. H. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 9 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 210. Campanula paniculata, Wall. Cat. 1295 A. B. 



BIRMA; Prome, Wallich. 



Stem 15 in., sparsely pubescent. Leaves 2 by f in., sessile, obscurely crenate, 

 nearly glabrous. Panicle nearly naked ; upper bracts linear, minute. Calyx-teeth 

 ^ in. Corolla -J in., bright blue. Capsule in., shortly obconic, valves forming 

 a cone as long as the inferior portion of the capsule. Seeds lanceolate-ellipsoid, 

 distinctly trigonous. 



