CampanumoBa.] ixxx. campanulaoej;. (0. B. Clarke.) 437 



it. The flowers in C. parvijlora are not always smaller tlian in C. celebica, but they 

 seem always ^-merous, while the flowers of C. celebica appear invariably S-6-m6rous; 

 a character of little weight in Campantdacets. 



PEXtACARPA, Sr.f. ^ T. 



A slender prostrate herb. Leaves alternate and opposite, petioled, ovate. 

 Pedicels axiUary, 1-flo-wered, clustered or solitary. Flowers small, purple or 

 white. Calyx superior ; teeth 5, oblong-linear, persistent. Corolla campanu- 

 late, 5-lohed. Stamens 5, free from the corolla. Ovary inferior, 2-ceIled. 

 Fruit dry, indehiscent, white, membranous, 3- (or 2-1-) celled, 6-30-Beeded. 

 Seeds fusiform-ellipsoid, dark brown, smooth. 



1. F. camosai S. f. 8f T. in Journ. lAnn. Sob. ii. 26. Campanula 

 carnosa. Wall. Cat. 1282, and in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 102 ; 

 DC. Prodr. vii. 474. 



KuMAON to Bhotan; alt. 6-11,000 ft., in wet places frequent. Khasu Mts. ; 

 alt. 5-6000 ft, H.f.^T. 



A very weak, succulent herb, 3-8 in., branching. Leaves J-§ in., obtuse or acute, 

 entire or crenate, glabrous or scabrid ; petiole J-J in. Pedicels sometimes 1 in. soli- 

 tary, sometimes clustered and less than ^ in. Calyx-teeth i in. Corolla ^-^ in. 

 Fruit J-J by ^^ in., sack-like, often unsymmetrlc by the suppression of one cell. 



10. PENTAFHRAGnXA, Wall. 



Perennial herbs ; stem short, sparingly branched. Leaves alternate, large, 

 often very unequal at the base. Spikes dense, seoi-pioid, shortly peduncled ; 

 flowers in two ranks ; bracts membranous, short. Calyx superior ; lobes 6, 

 long, obtuse, persistent. Corolla campanulate, 6-lobed, white." Stamens S, 

 epigynovis, free ; anthers ovate. Ovary inferior, S-6-celled ; style -^hort, cylin- 

 dric, stigma peltate obscurely 3-5-lobed. Befry inferior. Seeds very many, 

 small, testa prominently reticulated. — Species 3, Malayan. 



1. P. begponlaefoliuxn, WaU. Cat. 1313 ; leaves ovate serrate, calyx-teeth 

 ^ in. subquadrate-oblong obtuse, fruit J-J in. turbinate ellipsoid, A. DC. Prod/r. 

 vii. 496 ; H.f.^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 26 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 201. Phyteuma begonifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 85 ; Fl. Ind. i. 505 ; Jack 

 in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 276, t. 67. 



Meegtii, Griffith. Penang and Singapore, Eoxbwrgh, &c. 



Stem 6-12 in., succulent, scabrous-villous. Leaves 6-8 by 4-5 in. ovate with the 

 base excised on one side, cordate and auricled on the other ; or oblong base equal and 

 cuneate ; scabrous-pilose on the nerves beneath, otherwise nearly glabrous ; petiole 

 J-1 in. Peduncle \-l in., lateral near the summit of the stem, carrying 1-3 ovate 

 alternate sessile bracts j in. diam. Spike 1-4 in. ; bracts 2-ranked, obovate or 

 elliptic, \ in. long ; bracts ovary and calyx weakly villous. Corolla J-J in. long and 

 broad, lobes deep, broad, obtuse. — This genus is unlike other Campanulacea in habit ; 

 and P. begonicefolium so simulates Epiihema {Cyrtandraoee) in leaves and inflore- 

 scence, that these plants are mixed under Wall. Cat. 1313. 



11. SPBENOCX.EA, Gaertn. 



An annual, erect herb. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire. Spikes lateral 

 and teiminal, peduncled, cylindric, dense-fld., apex conical. Flmoers small, 

 sessile; bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyx ^-inferior; limb 5-fid, segments 

 ovat«. Corolla campanulate, epigynous, 6-lobed. Stamens 6, on the corolla, 



