MACLOSKIE : CAMPANULACE/E. 753 



expanded corolla. Capsule straight, opening below the middle. Seeds 

 lenticular. 



(N. Amer.); Patagon., Chubut, in elevated meadows. 



3. LOBELIA Linn. 



Chiefly herbs, with alternate or basal leaves and zygomorphous flowers 

 usually in terminal racemes or panicles. Corolla-tube divided on the dor- 

 sal side. Stamens 5, mostly free from the corolla, all the anthers united 

 around the 2-cleft style; 2 anthers hairy-tufted. Ovary 2-celled, many- 

 ovulate. Fruit a capsule. 



Species 225, widely dispersed. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 5, p. 66, A.) 



L. FLUVIATILIS Br. 



Glabrous. Creeping, with ascending, angulate branches. Leaves oval, 

 serrate, subciliate, sometimes entire. Pedicels bractless, longer or shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx-tube long-ovoid, pubescent, its lobes linear. 

 Corolla 4 times as long as the calyx-lobes, white (?). Anthers glabrous, 

 the inferior pair tufted. 



(Near Port Jackson, Australia, the type) ; S. Patagon., by Hatcher, 

 near Cape Fairweather, Oct., 1896. 



The Patagonian form is not creeping, has entire leaves, and the calyx 

 about three-fourths as long as the corolla. 



4. PRATIA Gaudich. 



Slender, creeping herbs, rarely ascending or erect, with alternate, toothe* 1 , 

 broad leaves, and axillary, i -flowered peduncles; or abortively dioecious. 

 Calyx-tube obovoid, adnate, wanting in male flowers, lobes 5, subequal. 

 Corolla oblique, its tube dorsally parted to the base, its lobes slightly 

 unequal or bilabiate. Stamen-tube free or attached to the base of the 

 corolla. Anthers, 2 apically awned or tufted ; the other 3 naked. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-celled, with many ovules. Fruit a berry, crowned by the calyx- 

 lobes. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 5, p. 68.) 



Species 16, Himalaya, Malaya, Java, Australia, New Zeal., Auckland 

 Is., and in S. Amer., from Bolivia and Brazil southward. 



