CodullOfSis. PENTANDIUA WON ..li YN"! A. 103 



most much shorter than the leaves. — Flowers very small, of a pale 

 blue, neaily white colour, perfectly smooth, solitary, rarely geminate, 

 on capillary axillary peduncles, which are a little shorter than the 

 leaves, having at the base a couple of minute, linear bractes. — Ca- 

 lyx \\v\\ erect, linear, enure lacinia-^-Corolla infuirdibuhform, more 

 than twice the length of the calyx; tube very short; limbus sub. bi- 

 labiate, quinquefid ; lacinic oblong, acute, equal ; the two uppermost 

 more parallel and erect, the rest spreading. — Stamina quite distinct, 

 distant, a little shorter than the corolla ; filaments flat, not valvate 

 at the base, inserted together with the corolla on the disc of the 

 ovarium ; anthers erect, linear. — Ovarium oblong, obscurely tri- 

 angular, tr-ilocuiar, many-seeded ; its vertex not elevated, as is 

 usual in this genua, vviihin the calycine lacinia?, but covered by a 

 fleshy yellowish disc — Style filiform. Stigmas three, linear. — Cap- 

 sule club-shaped, prismatic, crowned with the permanent calyx, 

 elevated on a lengthened peduncle, bursting towards its basis with 

 three round valves. 



Ohs. Tiiis species is remarkable on account of its filaments not 

 being valvate, and their adhering to the base of the corolla; also in 

 regard to the bilabiate corolla. It seems to be intermediate between 

 Campanula and Lobelia. 



CODONOPSIS. Wall 



Caftjx superior, five-parted. Corolla campanulate, equal. Fil$. 

 ments sub-linear. Scigma three-lobed. Capsule three-cdied, many- 

 seeded, bursting at the apex in. three short valves. 



] . C. xiridis, Wall. 



leaves cordat-- oblong, alternate, villous underneath. Calj/cins 

 lacinia; linear, distant, recurved. 



1 have found this remarkable plant in the dark forest at the top 

 ol Shivapoor, in blossom during the rains, and with ripe fruit in Oc- 



