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lowers Bolitary or glomerate, generally pedicelled^ seldom inVo^ 

 lucrate : corolla usually blue, sometimes j«llow or purple : calyx 

 "usually 5-lobed, occasionally 3-6-8 or 10-lobed, adnate to the 

 ovary, the lobes equal : petals united, regular, or rarely some* 

 what icreigular, dividons alternate with the lobes of the calyx 

 valvate in aestivation : stamens 3-10, usually equaDing, never 

 exceeding the lobes of the corolla, alternate with them, and not 

 adhering to the tube : filaments usually dilated, membranaceous 

 at the base : anthers for the most part free, the «ells bursting 

 iongitudinally before dehiscence : ovary inferior, 2^10-celied, 

 from the incomplete partitions : ovules numerous : styles more 

 -or less covered with caducous coUecdng hairs : stigma, naked, 

 sometimes bound with an indusium, ttsually branched, the 

 branches equalling the cells of the ovary, erect in the flower- 

 bud, hairy on the back, papillose within, diverging or recurved 

 in the flower : capsule dehiscing at the apex or sides, the valves 

 for the most part bearing the partitions^ more rarely without 

 valves, opening by pores or fissures ; seeds numerous, smaiU : 

 embryo straight : albumen fleshy. 



GENUS I. CEPSALOSTrGMA. 

 Pentandria Monoirynla. Sen: Syt' 



Deriv. From Kephah, a head, and Stigma ; alluding to the 

 -capitate stigma. 



'Gen. Char. - Calyx S-cleft : corolla S-parted : segments alter- 

 nating with the calycine lobes and longer than th^m : stamens free, 

 filaments broader at the base ; anthers 2-celled : style more or less 

 hairy: stigma isiraple; 'capitate, pilose: capsule 2-d-oeUed, 'dehJs- 

 -cin^ by 2-3 short valves at the apex, which ate septiferous in the 

 middle : seeds numerous, small, ovoid, triquetrous. 



(i) C. HiEsuTUM. (Edgew.J 



Ident. Edgew. ia Linn. Trans. XX. p. 81.— H, F. & T. in 

 Jonr. Proc. Linn. Soc> II. p. 9. 



Syn. Wahlenbefgla pertttifolia, W.^A. Dec. prod. VII. p, 

 484. — Campanula anagalloides, Royle IK. p. 264. 



Engrav, Wight's Icon. t. 842. 



