Campanula.] LXXX. CAMPANULACE.E. (C.B.Clarke.) 439 



many in each cell ; style cylindric, stigma shortly 3-5-lobed. Capsule obovoid 

 or elongate, truncate, dehiscing by small valves at the base or on the sides out- 

 side the calyx-lobes. Seeds very many, minute, ellipsoid or small compressed 

 margined. Species 230, natives chiefly of the north temperate hemisphere. 



SECT. I. Capsule dehiscing by valves at the base. 



* Tall erect herbs; cauline leaves broadly lanceolate or ovate, seeds (large for 

 Campanula) much compressed, margined. 



1. C. latifolia, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. vii. 4(39; cauliue leaves ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate somewhat pubescent, flowers suberect large, calyx-teeth lan- 

 ceolate subentire. Sot. Mag. t. 2553 ; H. f. 8? T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 22 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 921. C. Brunonis, Wall. Cat. 1285. C. macrantha, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3347. C. eriocarpa, JBieb. Fl. Taur. Cam. i. 149. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; alt. 8-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent. 

 DISTRIB. N. & W. Asia, Europe. 



Erect, 2-6 ft., corymbose upwards, branches ascending. Upper leaves 3 by 1-2 in., 

 subsessile, cuneate or rounded at the base, orenate-serrate, herbaceous. Pedicels 

 ^-\ in., recurved in fruit. Calyx-teeth in., minutely pilose. Corolla 1^ by 1 in., 

 purple. Capsule i by \-^ in , glabrous or very nearly so. Seeds j~ in. 



2. C. khasiana, H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 25; cauline leaves 

 ovate or broadly lanceolate hispid, flowers nodding, calyx-teeth narrowly lan- 

 ceolate sharply serrate. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4-6000 ft., plentiful. 



Erect, 1-4 ft., sparingly corymbose upwards, branches ascending. Upper leaves 

 l|-2 by 4-f in., sessile, base obtuse, crenate-serrate, rigid, nerves beneath elevated. 

 Pedicels $-^ in., lower apparently often elongated, 2-3 in., with small bracts near the 

 summit whence may rise flowers. Calyx-teeth ^ in., glabrous or nearly so, serratures 

 few very sharp. Corolla - in., and nearly as wide at the mouth, funnel-shaped 

 rather than campanulate, purple. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule by in., ellipsoid, 

 narrowed upwards, glabrous. Seeds jVlf *" 



** Erect herbs, with slender straight stems ; seeds minute, ellipsoid, little com- 



3. C. sylvatica, Wall. Cat. 1293, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey # 

 Wall. ii. 97 ; leaves linear pilose, calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate ^- in. A. DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 471 ; H.f.fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 22. C. stricta, Wall, in As. 

 Research, xiii. 374, not of Linn. 0. integerrima, Don Prodr. 155. C. capero- 

 nioides, Klotzsch in Rets. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 73, t. 78, fig. 1. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Gurwhal to Nipal, alt. 5-9000 ft., Wallich, Thomson, 

 Edgewarth, Strach. $ Winterb. ; Bhotan, Griffith. 



Stems 8-12 in., pilose, Leaves 2 by ^ in., in Griffith's Bhotan example 2 by in. 

 Panicle lax, few-flowered ; pedicels ^-f in., puberulous. Corolla |-^ by g- in., shortly 

 5-lobed. Capsule \ in. long and broad, obconic, finally glabrous, crowned by the 

 somewhat elongated calyx-teeth. 



4. C. canescens, Wall. Cat. 1289 ; hairy, leaves oblong or lanceolate 

 crenate, calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate y 1 | in. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 473 ; //./. 8f T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 23 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 209 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iii. 934. C. Benthamii, Wall. Cat. 1290. Cephalostigma spathulatum, 

 Thwaites Enum. 422. 



Throughout NORTHERN INDIA ; alt. 0-5000 ft., from the Himalaya to Central India 

 and Pegu, very common. CEYLON, Thwaites. 



Stems 6-24 in. Leaves 1 by \-% in. Flowers numerous, clustered in panicles, 



