632 BENGAL PLANTS. (Lobelia. 
Order LXXIII. CAMPANULACEZ. 
Herbs or undershrubs, sometimes twining, often with milky 
juice. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or toothed, rarely 
lobed; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely by abortion 
1-sexual, regular or irregular, axillary or terminal, solitary, race- 
mose, or subpaniculate; uppermost leaves reduced to s: 
bracts ; bracteoles usually 0. Sepals more or less connate below 
in an inferior or superior calyx; limb 4-6-partite, usually persis- 
tent. Petals connate in a superior regular or irregular corolla, 
tubular, rotate, or campanulate ; lobes as many as calyx-segments, 
valvate or induplicate in bud. Stamens 4-6, alternating with 
corolla-lobes, inserted with the corolla on the edge of an epigynous 
disk, rarely adnate to corolla-tube ; anthers free or connate in a 
tube, their cells parallel ; a aase longitudinal, introrse. Car- 
pels connate in a 2-5-celled ovary ; ovules many on axial placentas 
at the inner angle of the cells; style cylindric; stigmatic lobes as 
many as constituent carpels. Frwit a capsule or a berry, some- 
times indehiscent and dry. Seeds very many, small, ellipsoid; 
albumen fleshy; embryo straight, axial. 
Corolla 2-lipped, cleft dorsally to the base ; anthers = 1 At. Lobelia. 
Corolla regular ; anthers free or saint connate 
Fruit an indehiscent berry; st —— obed C serene’ 
Fruit opening by pores or valve 
Capsule only dehiscent sitthic the calyx-teeth :— 
Capsule circumscissile, opening by the fall of an apical disk 5 
flowers in dense spikes ; stigma lobed ...........000++- enoclea. 
pac 
a dchiscing by 3-5 apical valves bearing the septa ; flowers 
la. 
Stigma capitate ; corolla rotate, deeply cleft, with linear lobes 
Cephalostigma- 
wat rgia. 
Stigma lobed ; corolla campanulate 
Capsule laterally dehiscent at the base or sides below the calyx- 
teeth ; corolla campanulate ; stigma lobed ......0.+-0+++« Campanula. 
505. Lobelia Linn. 
Herbs, sometimes tall; leaves alternate, toothed, rarely sub- 
entire. Flowers on axillary, 1-flowered, sometimes subracemose 
seomnene dd bracts leafy ; bracteoles small, often 0. Sepals con- 
nate in an adnate, turbinate, or obovoid calyx; limb 5-fid to 
