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49. CAMPAXULACEJE. 
2-3 composite with leafy membranous divisions, dark full gr. 
rough all over with short stiff strigose close-pressed hairs. 
Petioles fringed irregularly with long w. bristles. Kac. chiefly 
in bunches at the top of the st. about 2 in. long and \ in. 
broad; male fl. thickly crowded pale ocliraceous, each head 
lo-20-fld. 3-4 mill, in diam. shortly but distinctly stalked, 
the saucer-shaped inv. leafy dark gr. subglabrescent ebrac- 
teate. Female fl. gr. with their spinous coronet and beaks 
pale straw-colour. Fr. hard but with its investing invo- 
luc-ral coat thin and membranous, 3^ mill, long (of which 
the beak is 1 mill.), 'If broad. Acli. single in each fr., 24 
mill, long, If broad, hard black smooth rather shining ob- 
ovate-urnshaped sharply but unequally 3-4-quetrous, abruptly 
rounded or subobtuse at top with a small prominent apicle 
or blunt point. 
Order XLIX. CAMP AN PLACED. 
The Campanula or Hair-bell Family. 
Fl. perfect irregular or regular. Cal. -tube adnate to the ov., 
limb superior free mostly 5-partite persistent. Cor. gamo- 
petalous inserted at top of cal. -tube marcescent or persistent, 
limb 5- fid irregularly and bilabiately or regularly and stellately, 
the lobes alternate with the sep. valvate in bud. Stam. mostly 
5 epigynous inserted with cor. at top of cal. -tube free from or 
only adnate to the cor. partially or at its base and alternate 
with its lobes ; fll. or antli. more or less combined into a tube 
around the style or free : antli. 2-celled bursting longitudinally 
inwards. Style filiform. Caps, mostly 2-3- rarely 5-celh d, 
crowned by "the persistent or marcescent lobes of the cal. 
and cor., the cells manv-seeded bursting either loculicidally 
from the top downwards, or opening at the top or sides by 
pores, valves, slits, or rarely transverse fissures. Embryo 
straight in a fleshy albumen ; radicle near the liilum. — Herba- 
ceous or suffrutescent acrid mostly milky pi. with alternate 
exstipulate 1. and mostly conspicuous blue or w., rarely red or 
y. fl. 
Tribe I. LOB ELI EM. 
Odd segment of cal. superior or anterior. Cor. irregular 1- 
2-labiate. Fil. often and anth. always combined or coherent ; 
the 2 lower anth. and sometimes Jill bearded at top ; pollen 
ovoidal. Style smooth fringed with hairs below the 2-lobed 
or undivided stigma. Caps, splitting loculicidally downwards 
at top. 
1. Lobelia. Cal. 5-fid. Cor. tubular, tube split down on 
