QQ v%sjxyDKiA moiVogynu. Campanula* 



CAMPANULA. Sckreb. Gen. 290. . 



Calyx five-parted. Corol carnpanulate. Filaments with their 

 lobes dilated, and arched. Stigma from three to five- cleft. Capsule 

 inferior, from three to five-celled, opening by pores on the sides. 



l.C. dehiscens, R.* 



Annual, ascending, round, a little hairy. Leaves, sessile, linear 

 lanceolate, remotely toothed. Flowers from five to six, terminal. 

 Capsules without lateral pores and opening at the apex. 



A native of Bengal. Flowering time the cold, and beginning of 

 the hot season. 



Roof nearly simple, white, annual. — Stems and branches ascending, 

 about a foot high, round, hairy. — Leaves alternate, sessile, linear 

 lanceolate, remotely, and lightly toothed ; from one to two inches 

 long.— Flowers terminal, corymbiform, white, pretty large, bell-shap- 

 ed. — Calyx, corol, stamens and pistil as the genus. — Capsule obo- 

 vate, without lateral pores, opening at the apex. — Seeds numer- 

 ous, minute. — Receptacle renifoi m, in the angle of each cell. 



2. C. lancifolia, R.-f 



Ramous, smooth. Leaves sub-opposite and alternate, sh.orf.-pe-' 

 tioled, lanceolate, serrate, acuminate. Flowers terminal. Calycint 

 leaflets lanceolate and laciniate. Capsules obovate, five-celled. 



* C. dehiscens, Roxb. hort. beng. 85 ; et Wall, in Asiat. Res. xii. 571, c. icone. 

 — N. W. 



t 1 think this may be a species 1 have met with in the northern parts of Ben- 

 gal. My plant grows on the bare interstices between the tufts of long grass in the 

 valleys which are overflowed during Ihe rains, where it springs as soon as the floods 

 dry up. It is a very slender annual plant, a foot or a foot and half hi<;h, without 

 branches, except near the top, where it shoots out sometimes two or three small 

 ones an inch or two long, each terminated by a single nodding flower about the 

 size, shape, and colour of those c'f C. rotundifolia, the radical leaves I have not seen, 

 as ihey soon drop off, the six or eight leaves (for there are not more on the full grown 

 plant) are lanceolate, or even linear. It is found in flower from November to March 

 or April, and perishes after having perfected its seeds. Ed, 



