Plate 38. 
PRATIA REPENS. 
Family, Campanulace.^] :— Petals united. Stamens free from the 
corolla. Leaves alternate. Stamens as many as corolla lobes. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary multilocular. 
Genus, Pratia : — Slender herbs, prostrate or creeping, rarely erect. 
Leaves alternate, broad, toothed. Flower stalk axillary, 1-flowered. 
Flowers small, male and female flowers often on different 
plants and sterile. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes sometimes unequal, 
absent in male flowers. Corolla dorsally divided to the base, 
lobes unequal. Stamen tube free from corolla or joined to it at 
the base. Anthers 5, 2-tufted or with awns. Stigma shortly 
2-lobed. Fruit a berry, surmounted by the calyx. 
Pratia repens, Gaud. Plant about 2 in. high, creeping. 
Leaves long-stalked, kidney-shaped or orbicular, edges waved. 
Flower stalk about f in. long, bearing 2 or 3 small bracts. 
Calyx tube globose, lobes ovate and pointed. Corolla bright 
lilac, white inside. Anthers lilac, filaments dark violet. Seeds 
yellowish-brown. 
Swamps, banks of streams, etc. Forming dense mats in 
moist places. 
Flowers December. 
East and West Falklands. 
Description of plate : — 1, whole plants in flower and fruit ; 2, flower ; 
3, section of flower ; 4, calyx laid open ; 5, flower with petals removed ; 
6, corolla ; 7, style and stigma ; 8, section of ovary ; 9, fruit ; 10, seed. 
All except 1 enlarged. 
