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CAMPANULACEjE. IX. WAHLENBERGIA. 



$ . H. Native of New Zealand. Campanula polymorpha dif- 

 fusa, Soland. in herb. Banks. 



Weak Wahlenbergia. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1794. 

 to 1 foot. 



1C W. CHAMISSONIA'NA ; stems ascending, branched at the 

 base, and leafy, but naked at the apex, and forming erect, few- 

 flowered, elongated peduncles, which are furnished with a few 

 bracteas; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile, marginated by a nerve, 

 obscurely few-toothed, simiated and undulated, having the keel 

 and margins running down the stem, sometimes beset with a few 

 spreading, stiff, white hairs, and sometimes glabrous ; sterile 

 branches"always pilose ; bracteoles ovate, acute, ciliated. O- ? 

 7/ . ? G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Wahlenbergia, 

 no. 3. Cham, in Linnaea. 7. p. 194. Ovarium obconical, 10- 

 nerved. Segments of the calyx ovate, acute, ciliated. Corolla 

 funnel- shaped, with an ample deeply 5-cleft limb, and narrow- 

 elliptic, acute segments. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved. Stamens 

 5. Stigma trifid. Seeds ovoid, smooth, shining, brown. 



Var. ft, micrdntha (Cham. 1. c.) plant taller and slenderer ; 

 stems erect, 2-3 feet high; leaves 15 lines long and 3 broad, 

 less undulated and flatter ; diameter of corolla half an inch. 



Var. y, macranlha (Cham. 1. c. p. 195.) old branches nearly 

 naked ; stem erect, hardly a foot high ; leaves more crowded, 

 9 lines long and 4 lines broad at the base, or oblong-elliptic, 

 blunter, more yndulated ; diameter of corolla an inch. 



Chamisso's Wahlenbergia. PI. 1 to 3 feet. 



17 W. MARGINA'TA (Alph. D. C.mon. p. 143.) stem branched, 

 glabrous ; leaves alternate or nearly opposite, lanceolate and 

 linear-lanceolate, undulately subserrated, with pilose margins ; 

 calyx glabrous, with an obovate tube ; corolla funnel-shaped, 

 hardly one-half longer than the calycine lobes. 3.G. Native 

 of Japan, by road sides between Arai and Quana. Campanula 

 marginata, Thunb. fl. jap. p. 89. pi. jap. dec. with a figure. 

 Campanula gracilis, var. Spreng. pug. no. 28. Roem. et Schultes. 

 syst. 5. p. 133. Root or lower part of stem thick and woody, 

 decumbent. Branches herbaceous, erect and branched. Mar- 

 gins of leaves white. Peduncles terminal and axillary, elongated, 

 1 -flowered. Corolla small, blue. 



Afarginate-lenved Wahlenbergia. PI. foot. 



18 W. LAVANDUL.EFOLIA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 144.) stem fili- 

 form, angular, striated; branches 1-3-flowered ; leaves sessile, 

 linear, obtuse, obsoletely and remotely serrulated ; flowers quin- 

 quefid ; corolla exceeding the ovarium a little. I/ . G. Native of 

 Japan, on the mountains. Campanula lavandulsefolia, Blum, bijdr. 

 p. 726. 



Lavender-leaved Wahlenbergia. PI. foot. ? 



19 W. QUADR!FIDA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 144.) stem filiform, 

 angularly striated, pilose as well as the leaves, which are linear ; 

 flowers quadrifid ; corolla hardly exceeding the ovarium ; stig- 

 mas 3. 7t ? G. Native of New South Wales, about Port 

 Jackson. Campanula quadrifida, R. Br. prod. p. 561. Flowers 

 blue. This species comes very near to Wahl. gracilis, and is 

 probably only an earlier variety of it, 



Quadrifid-Rowered Wahlenbergia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt 1820 

 PL \ to 1 foot. 



20 W. SAXICOLA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 144.) glabrous; stem 

 short ; leaves crowded, lanceolate, a little toothed ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, scape-formed; flowers quadrifid; capsule globose. 

 1/..t G. Native of Van Diemen's Land. Campanula saxicola, 

 R. Br. prod. p. 561. This is very nearly allied to W. quadrifida. 



Rock Wahlenbergia. PI. foot. 



21 W. SIEBE'RI (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 144) stem branched, 

 very hispid at the base ; leaves somewhat denticulated, acute : 

 lower ones obovate-lanceolate, pilose : superior ones linear- 

 lanceolate, smoothish ; calyx glabrous, with an ovoid tube ; 

 corolla tubular, nearly 3 times larger than the calycine lobes 



capsule obovoid. Q. H. Native of New Holland. Campa- 

 nulaceae, Sieb. fl. nov. holl. no. 577. Peduncles naked, 

 divided into 1 -flowered pedicels; the flowers are therefore 

 somewhat panicled. Corolla blue, small. Stem angular at the 

 base. 



Sieber's Wahlenbergia. PI. \ foot. 



22 W. DEHISCENS (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 145.) stem branched 

 or simple, rather pilose at the base ; leaves rather pilose : lower 

 ones lanceolate-obovate, bluntish, undulately toothed ; calyx 

 glabrous, with an obovate tube; corolla funnel- shaped, one half 

 longer than the calycine lobes; capsule obovoid. 0. H. 

 Native of Bengal and Nipaul. Campanula dehiscens, Roxb. 

 hort. beng. p. 85. fl. ind. 2. p. 96. Wall, in asiat. researc. 

 12. p. 571. with a figure. Lower leaves numerous. Peduncles 

 terminal and axillary, nearly naked, divided into 1-flowered 

 filiform pedicels. Corollas small, white. Capsule dehiscing by 

 3 valves at the top. 



Dehiscent Wahlenbergia. Fl. Aug. Clt. 1818. PI. 1 foot. 



23 W. AGRE'STIS (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 145.) stem branched 

 from the base, pilose and leafy at bottom, but naked and 

 smoothish above ; leaves linear, narrow, nearly entire, with un- 

 dulated margins ; peduncles subdichotomous, erect ; tube of 

 calyx obovate ; corolla funnel-shaped, twice longer than the 

 calycine segments ; capsule obovate. O- H. Native of 

 Nipaul. Campanula agrestis, Wall, in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 97. 

 Leaves rather pilose. Peduncles elongated,.erect, naked, some- 

 times dichotomous ; pedicels terminal, 1-flowered. Corolla blue. 



Field Wahlenbergia. PI. 1 foot. 



24 W. I'NDICA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 146.) stem branched, 

 rather pilose at the base ; leaves linear, rather pilose, entire, 

 accuminated ; tube of calyx ovoid, glabrous ; corolla one-half 

 longer than the calycine lobes; capsule obconical. O- ? H. 

 Native of the East Indies, on the Nellyghery mountains, where 

 it was collected by Leschenault, and where it is called Aleka. 

 Habit of W. linarioides. Peduncles 1-flowered, glabrous. 

 Flowers terminal, nutant. Capsule erect. 



Indian Wahlenbergia. PI. -^ foot. 



25 W. RIPA'RIA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 146.) plant pilose at 

 the base, and glabrous at top ; leaves few, undulately toothed, 

 rather hairy : lower ones obovate-lanceolate : the rest narrower, 

 glabrous, and accuminated ; calyx glabrous, with an ovoid 

 narrow tube ; corolla one-half longer than the calycine lobes ; 

 capsule obovoid. Q. H. Native of Senegal, in the regions 

 called Podor and Walo, where it was collected by Leprieur and 

 Perrottet. Campanula riparia Lepr. et Perrott. in lit. Stem 

 simple or branched, leafy at the base, and naked at the top. 

 Peduncles erect, divided into filiform 1-flowered pedicels. 



River-side Wahlenbergia. PI. 1 to lj foot. 



26 W. HU'MILIS (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 147.) plant pilose at 

 the base, and glabrous at top ; leaves much crowded at the 

 bottom, linear-lanceolate : upper ones ligulate ; calyx glabrous, 

 with an ovoid narrow tube ; corolla one-half longer than the 

 calycine lobes ; capsule ovoid. O- H. Native of Senegal. 

 Stem very leafy at the base, divided into many 1-flowered 

 pedicels at top. 



Humble Wahlenbergia. PI. | foot. 



27 W. DENUDATA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 147.) plant quite 

 glabrous ; stem simple, few-flowered ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 with undulated, nearly entire margins; tube of calyx, obconical, 

 elongated: capsule elongated, obovate. Q. fj . H. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Campanulaceae, Burch. cat. pi. af. 

 no. 2769. Habit of W. Capensis. Stem erect, only leafy at 

 the base. Leaves greyish-green, with white edges. Flowers 

 solitary, terminal. 



Naked Wahlenbergia. PI. 1 foot. 



28 W. CE'RNUA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 148.) stem much 



