238 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Campanulacecs . 
Disteib. S< ia, from Port Jackson to Victoria. 
A very small species, but often forming large green patches in moist places. — Stems creeping, very slender, 
much branched. Leaves numerous, distichous, membranous, on very short petioles, ovate, deeply toothed, •£ inch 
long, glabrous or pubescent. Peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Mowers small, blue or 
white. Stamens inserted at the very base of the tube of the corolla. — Plate LXIX. B. Fig. 1, flower; 2, corolla 
laid open, showing the insertions of the stamens ; 3, ovary and style ; 4, transverse section of ovary : — all magnified. 
4. Lobelia fluviatilis (Br. Prodr. 563) ; glaberrima v. glabriuscula, pusilla, caule gracili brevi 
repente, foliis obovato-oblongis in petiolum brevem angustatis subacutis sinuato-dentatis, pedunculis axil- 
laribus folio longioribus ebracteolatis, calycis tubo glabrato v. puberulo lobis triangulari-subulatis, filamentis 
medio tubi integri corollas insertis.— DC. Prodr. vii. 366. (Gunn, 550.) (Tab. LXX.) 
Hab. Marshy places near Launceston, Gunn. — (Fl. Jan.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : New South Wales and Victoria. 
A small, creeping species, glabrous or nearly so. — Stems slender, 2-4 inches long. Leaves about i inch long, 
- c leaves. Ovary 
short, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Corolla with an entire tube, on which the stamens are inserted rather above 
the middle.— Plate LXX. Fig. 1, flower; 2, corolla with the tube laid open, showing the insertion of the sta- 
mens ; 3, ovary and style ; 4, transverse section of ovary : — all magnified. 
5. Lobelia irrigua (Br. Prodr. 563); "repens muscosa glabra, foliis crassiusculis subrotundis 
dentato-crenatis petiolatis pedunculo ebracteato longioribus, corollas tubo longitudinaliter flsso, limbi laciniis 
subsecmalibus, staminibus epigynis." — DC. Prodr. vii. 367. 
Hab. Tasmania, Brown. 
Distrib. South coast of Australia, Brown. 
I have seen Brown's specimens of Fers from those described above in the small size, 
minute, fleshy leaves, not $ inch long, which are rounded, shortly petioled, and bluntly toothed ; the peduncle is 
very short, without bracts, the tube of the corolla spUt, and the stamens are described as epigynous. 
6. Lobelia gibbosa (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 50. t. 71); glabra, caule erecto tereti simplici v. diviso, 
foliis paucis linearibus integerrimis v. paucidentatis carnosulis, racemo secundo, pedicellis calyce brevioribus, 
corollse labiis valde insequalibus superiore imberbi v. barbato laciniis acutis, capsula hinc gibba. — Br. Prodr. 
564; DC. Prodr. vii. 358. L. simplicicaulis, Br. et DC. 1. c. {Gunn, 104, 514.) 
Hab. Abundant in light, sandy soil— (Fl. Nov.-Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia. 
A very common and beautiful species, almost leafless or with very narrow leaves, easily recognized by its 
erect, slender habit, and racemes of deep him- flower.-. wi;', gibbon- ovaries. L cannot distinguish Brown's L. 
gibbosa and L. simplicicaulis from one another. — A slender, erect, simple or branched plant, 6—18 inches tall. 
Stems stout or ftexuous, glabrous or slightly pubescent, terete. Branches erect, leafless. Leaves few. alternate, very 
narrow, linear, subulate or filiform, fleshy, sometimes broader and irregularly toothed. Flowers in terminal ra- 
cemes, few or many, on short, stiff pedicel-. Qah/x-lobes subulate, shorter than the tube of the deep blue corolla. 
Nat. Ord. XLVIL CAMPANULACE^E. 
Australia numbers very few (about four) plants of this family, which abounds in beautiful genera and 
species in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, as also in South Africa. These all belong to 
the genus WaUenhergia, and perhaps to one extremely variable species, which is found in various other 
parts of the globe. 
