752 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



c2. Fruit a berry. Anthers 2 apically tufted, 3 naked. Mostly creeping herbs, with 

 broad leaves and I -flowered peduncles. Often dioecious. 



4. Pratia, p. 753. 



Z>2. Corolla-tube not open behind. Capsule indehiscent, or dehiscing by a lid. Filaments 

 connate at least below ; 2 anthers with i or a few apical bristles, 3 naked. Habit of 

 Pratia. 5. Hypsela, p. 754. 



i. WAHLENBERGIA Schrad. 



Herbs, or with woody base and varying habit. Generally with blue, 

 nodding, regular flowers and erect, 2-5-valved capsule, dehiscing at the 

 apex. Corolla more or less deeply 5- or rarely 3-4-cleft. Stamens 

 epigynous, filaments wide at base; anthers free. (Campanula has the 

 capsule dehiscing laterally.) 



Species 70, chiefly in S. and W. Africa ; the Mediterr. region ; Him- 

 alaya ; Japan; Malaya; Tasmania; New Zeal.; also in trop. Amer. In 

 the Southern Hemisphere it takes the place of Campanula in the Northern. 

 (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 5, p. 58.) 



W. LINARIOIDES DC. 



Glabrous, erect, perennial herb, with simple stem, or branching from the 

 base. Leaves linear, subdenticulate. Pedicels terminal, long, naked. 

 Calyx-tube obconical ; its lobes triangular-acuminate, as long as the tube. 

 Corolla funnelform, 5-cleft, half longer than the calyx-lobes. Capsule 

 long, obconical, 2-celled. Seeds lenticular. 



(Chili; S. Brazil; used medicinally against colic); N. Patagon., near 

 Rio Negro. 



2. LEGOUZIA Durand, 1782. (Specularia Heister, 1830.) 



Venus's Looking-glass. 



Low annuals, with axillary, bluish flowers. Calyx $-(3-4-) lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, separate. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens 5, separate ; filaments short, 

 hairy. Stigmas 3. Capsule prismatic-oblong, 3-celled, opening by 3 lat- 

 eral valves. 



Species 10, chiefly in Northern Hemisphere. 



L. PERFOLIATA (Linn, sub Campanula] Britton. 



Leaves roundish-ovate, clasping by the cordate base, toothed, slightly 

 hairy. Flowers sessile, 1-3 in the axils, only the upper ones having an 



