578 
49. CAMPANTXACEJE. 
wards ; fl. axillary sessile remote in a long spike or at theend s 
of the short side-branches, mostly solitary, rarely 2-3-nate; 
lobes of cal. linear finely acuminate falcatelv spreading or re- 
curved nearly or quite as long as the cal. -tube or ov. and from 
about as long to nearly twice as long as the cor. but rarely 
more than half the length of the ripe caps. ; seeds lenticular 
rounded or rounded-oval. — DC. vii. 489; WB. iii. 6; Koch 
544 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 405. Prismatocarpus falcatus Ten. 
“Prodr. 16; FI. Nap. i. 77, t. 20.” Campanula falcata It. et 
Sch., Spr. i. 737 ; “ Guss. PI. Sic. Prod. i. 247.” 
/3. scabra DC ! 1. c. ; very scabrous almost furry, cal.-lobes 
scarcely longer than the cor. — Prismatocarpus scaber Lowe 
Novit. 538 or 16. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, nr. Curral dos 
Romeiros, nearly at the bottom descending from the Mount, oil 
a dry bank on the left hand a little before reaching the bridge ; 
top of Cabo Girao “and from thence towards Pico do Cedro 
in the Curral das Freiras,” Capt. Norman ; S. Vicente, rocks 
1 500 ft. above the church on the W. side ; “ Rib. de S ta Luzia, 
Sao Gon^allo, and Levada do Bom Successo, Funchal,” S r Mo- 
niz. May, June. — Root small w. slender fibrous strongly 
fetid. St. a foot high or more, abruptly bent and ascending at 
the base, then straight and stiffly erect, strongly 4- angular, 
slender. Whole pi. harsh roughly furry-scabrous pale dull 
greyish-gr. Lower or root-1, stalked rounded or spathulate 
crenate, the rest sessile lanceolate more entire, all small and in- 
conspicuous. Terminal fl. larger and more conspicuous than 
the rest, cor. light v. or purplish bl., sometimes u pink ” (Capt. 
Norman), its throat yellowish-w., f in. in diam. lobes 5 lines 
long, 2 broad, lanceolate, at first opening a little shorter but 
afterwards a little longer than the finelv narrow falcate lobes of 
cal. ; style and trifid stigma pale v. albout half the length of 
cor. Side-fl. with the cor. shorter and altogether smaller. 
Caps. 6-8 or 9 lines long, about 1 line broad, strongly and 
deeply 3-ribbed or grooved, linear-subclavate, a little con- 
tracted but not narrowly constricted at top close below the 
cal.-lobes, attenuated downwards. Seeds 1 millim. long, very 
bright shining chestnut. 
The name Prismatocarpus is now confined to the Cape sp., 
distinguished from the European by having only 2 stigmas, a 
2-celled ov. and caps., the latter splitting down from top to 
bottom ultimately into 5 lacinise. 
t2. S. hybrida (L.). 
Partially or slightly scabrous, st. mostly simple virgate ; fi. 
eorymbosely agglomerate or approximate at the ends of the st. 
