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calyx persistent, calyx reduced to a mere rim at the top of the ovary 
and corolla-lobes narrower and more acute, without a distinct crumpled 
border. S. Thunbergii and senegalensis, PC. Prod. loc. cit. 
Mauritius, on shores, Sieber, ii. 122 ! Abundant on Flat Island, Bojer. Tropics 
of both hemispheres. 
Order LVIII. CAMPANULACE.®. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb regularly 5-cleft. Corolla 
gamopetalous, with 5 regular or irregular lobes. Stamens 5, epigynous 
or epipetalous ; filaments free or joined ; anthers 2-celled, basifixed. 
Ovary 2-5-celled ; ovules many ; placentation axile ; style filiform, 
clothed with a ring of or throughout with collecting hairs ; stigmas as 
many as the ovary-cells. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing variously by slits 
or pores, or an indehiscent berry. Seeds minute, albuminous, dotted. — 
Herbs with alternate exstipulate leaves, milky juice, and mostly showy 
racemed flowers. Distrib. Cosmopolitan. Species 1000. 
Corolla regular. Anthers free, not bearded 1 . Heteroch^enia. 
Corolla irregular. Anthers syngenesious, bearded ... 2. Lobelia. 
1. HETEROCHJENIA, A. DC. 
Calyx-tube oblong-cylindrical; teeth long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
ciliated, rather imbricated in bud. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-cleft. 
Stamens 5, free. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; style cylindrical, as long as 
the corolla, pilose, with three broad stigmas. Capsule cylindrical, 
trilocular, at first opening loculicidally by three valves at the top, 
afterwards by pores at the base between the ten ribs. Seeds abundant, 
ovoid-trigonous, dotted. The only species. 
1. H. ensifolia, A. PC. Prod. vii. 442. Stems woody, unbranched, 
terete, 1-2 feet high, as thick as a man's finger, marked with the scars 
of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded near the top of the stem, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, acute, 4-8 in. long, f- f- in. broad at 
the middle, acute, narrowed to | in. above the deltoid clasping base, 
strongly nerved, conspicuously ciliato-denticulate. Inflorescence a lax 
panicle a foot long with large leafy bracts and ascending few-flowered 
corymbose branches. Calyx-teeth f— | in., twice as long as the tube. 
Corollas pendent, an inch long, yellowish, with 5 purple blotches 
inside. Capsule erect, glabrous, an inch long. Campanula ensifolia, 
Lam. Encyc. i. 582. 
Mauritius, on dry slopes of the part of the Pouce called the Fenetre de Pieter-both, 
Bojer ! Also Bourbon, Balfour ! 
2. LOBELIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; teeth 5, linear or lanceolate. 
Corolla with a cylindrical tube, slit down the upper side ; limb 
