422 Lxxx. CAMPAKULACE/E. (C. B. Clarke.) IPratia. 



or irregular, tubular, rotate or campanulate ; lolies valrate in bud. Stamens 

 4-6, alternating with the corolla-lohes, inserted with the corolla on the margin 

 of the epigynous disk (in Sphenocha on the corolla-tubs) ; anthers free or united 

 in a tube. OwBj-y 2- 6-celled; placentas in the inner angle of the cell, many- 

 ovuled. Style cylindric ; stigma-lobes as many as ovary-cells. Fi-uit capsular, 

 baccate or dry (in Sphenoclea spuriously circumsciss). Seeds very many, small, 

 ellipsoid, albuminous; embi-yo erect, radicle next the hilum. — Species 1000, 

 scattered throughout the globe. 



Tribe I. Xiobeliese. Corolla 2-lipped, cleft dorsally to the base. Anthers 

 connate. 



Berry indehiscent 1. Fbatia. 



Capsule 2-Talved at the crown 2. Lubislia. 



Teibb II. Campanuleae. Corolla regular. Anthers free or imperfectly 

 connate. 



* Capsule loculicidal %mthin the calyx-teeth. 



Small herbs; corolla very small stellately 5-partite; capsule Jj 



in. diam 3. Cephalostigma. 



Corolla campamilate ; capsule altogether inferior, J-J in. . . . 4. Wahlenbeisgia, 



Corolla tubular inflated upwards ; capsule with a conical superior 



beak 5. Leptocodon. 



Corolla campanulate; capsule with a conical superior beak . , 6. Codonopsis. 



Capsule consisting of the conical beak, enclosed in the calyx-tube 7. Ciananthus. 



** Fi-uit indehiscent or membranous, breaking ujJ irregularly. 



Berry fleshy, crowned by a flat disk 8. Campantjmjea. 



Slender prostrate herb ; flowers very small ; fruit small inferior, 



membranous 9. Peeacaepa. 



Leaves large succulent ; flowers 2-ranked in a dense scorpioid 



epike 10. Peiitapheagma. 



Flowers in a dense cylindric spike, capsule circumsciss . . . .11. Sphenoclea. 



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Capsule dehiscent at the hose or sides below the calyx-teeth. 



Corolla rotate, ovary 2-celled 12. Phttetjma. 



Corolla campanulate rarely rotate, ovary 3-5-celled 13. Campanula. 



1. FXtATXA, Gaud. 



Herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered. Coly.v 

 inferior, limb 5-partite. Corolla oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-partite, lower 3- 

 lobed. Staminal tube free or nearly so ; 2 lower anthers with 1 or more terminal 

 bristles, 8 upper naked. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; placentae hemispheric ; stigma 

 2-lobed or emarginate. Berry ellipsoid, crowned with the calyx-teeth. Seeds 

 very many, minute. — Species 15, S. E. Asia, Austi'alia, N. Zealand, and S. 

 America. 



1. P. beg'onifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1373 ; small, creeping, rooting, 

 pubescent, leaves petioled cordate-ovate. P. zeylanica, Sassh. Cat. Bogor. 106. 

 P. Nummularia, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 210. Lobelia Nummularia, 

 Lamh. Diet. iii. 689. L. begonisefolia, Wall. Cat. 1306; in As. Res. xiii. 377; 

 in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey §• Wall. ii. 115. L. Horsfleldiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 ii. 577. Piddingtonia Nummularia, DC. Pi-odr. vii. 341 ; H. f. §■ T. in Journ. 

 lAnn. Soc. ii. 28. Rapuntium Nummularium, Presl Prodr. Lob. 30. 



NipAL, SiKKiM, Bhotan, Assam, Khasla Mts., and Pegu, alt. 2-7000 ft., frequent. 

 — DisTEiB. Malaya, S. China. 



