636 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Wahlenbergia. 
peduncles; bracts minute or 0. Sepals connate in a superior 
calyx; limb 5-partite. Petals 5, connate campanulate 
corolla, sometimes the lobes almost free to fee weil Stamens 5, 
free from the corolla; filaments often dilated near the base; 
anthers oblong, free. Carpels connate in an inferior, turbinate, 
of 3 narrow lobes. Frwit an erect, 2~3-celled capsule, opening 
loculicidally by 2-8 valves within the persistent calyx-teeth. Seeds 
very Many, minute. 
1142, Copel caummat Gracitis DC.; F. B. I. iii. 429. Cam- 
ponula dehiscens F. I. i. 504. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A slender herb, simple or ‘vaesaand usually glabrous. 
510, Campanula Ling. 
Perennial or annual, erect or decumbent herbs ; leaves alter- 
nate, or the radical subrosulate, from ovate to linear. Flowers 
peduncled or subsessile, axillary or terminal, panicled, spicate or 
subcapitate, purple or white; bracts minute or 0. Sepals connate 
in a turbinate calyx, adnate to the ovary ; limb deeply 5-lobed, 
persistent. Petals 5, connate in a cam mpanulate corolla; limb 
shortly lobed. Stamens 5, free; filaments dilated at the base; 
anthers free. Carpels connate in an inferio ovary, 3- or rarely 
shortly 3-5-lobed. Frwit an obovoid or elongated capsule, de- 
hiscing by small valves at the base or on the sides below the 
calyx-lobes. Seeds very many, minute, ellipsoid or compressed 
and margined. 
1143. CaMPANULA CANESCENS Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 489. 
Chota Nagpur; _— Tirhut ; N. Bengal. 
An erect, hirsute h 
Order LXXIY. VACCINIACEE. 
Shrabe or small trees, ee epiphytic, with the stem 
much thickened at the base. Leaves alternate or spuriously 
whorled, entire or per stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
reguiar; racemed or solitary ; pedicels 1-bracteate and 
often 2-bracteolate, frequently thickened and articulate bene 
the ovary. Sepals connate in an ovoid calyx-tube, adnate to the 
