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CAMPANTTLACEJE. 
[Lobelia. 
2-lipped ; two upper teeth smaller, three larger forming the lower lip. 
Stamens epigynous ; filaments as long as the corolla-tube, joined in 
the upper part and the basifixed anthers also syngenesious, the two 
lower bearded. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, with a ring of collecting 
hairs ; stigma scarcely lobed. Capsule many-seeded, opening above 
the calyx- tube. — Herbs with alternate leaves, the flowers in terminal 
racemes. Distbib. Cosmopolitan. Species about 200. 
Ovary almost completely adnate to tlie calyx. Bract- 
leaves like the stem leaves. 
Corolla f-§ in. long 1. L. sekpens. 
Corolla in. long 2. L. vagans. 
Ovary only half-adnate to the calyx. Bract leaves min ute * L. Cliffortiana. 
1. L. serpens, Lam. ; DC. Prod. vii. 368. A perennial herb, with 
wide-trailing slender mostly glabrous stems, simple or with ascending 
branches. Leaves membranous, abundant ; lower oblanceolate, short- 
petioled, the rest linear, sessile, } in. broad, obscurely or distinctly 
toothed, under an inch long, narrowed from the middle to the base and 
point. Mowers from the axils of the upper leaves in a lax raceme ; 
pedicels in. long, mostly shorter than their subtending leaves. 
Calyx-teeth linear, y 1 ^ in. long, equalling the obconic flower-calyx. 
Corolla y in. long ; lobes blue, lower obovate, the throat yellowish, 
blue spotted. Capsule obovoid, i in long, scarcely protruding from 
the calyx-tube. L. filiformis, Lam. ; DC. Prod, loc . cit. L. telephioides, 
DC. L. polymorpha, Dory. L. bicolor, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 193, non 
Sims. 
Mauritius, frequent in dry soil. Also Bourbon and Madagascar. L. madagaa- 
cariensis , JR. and S., seems only a variety of the same species, with larger leaves 
(lower oblong or obovate-oblong in. broad), grown in richer soil. 
2. L. vagans, Palf. fil. MSS. A tufted perennial, glabrous in all its 
parts, w r ith trailing branched slender stems a foot or more long, acutely- 
angled upwards. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, membranous, shortly 
petioled, £— 1J in. long, obtuse, crenate, cuneate and entire at the base. 
Mowers 6-8 in a lax raceme from the axils of the reduced upper leaves, 
on ascending pedicels |-f in. long. Calyx-teeth linear, i in. long, 
equalling the obconic tube. Corolla white, J-f in. long, the oblong - 
ligulate teeth a third as long as the cylindrical tube. Capsule little 
protruded from the calyx-tube. 
Rodriguez, common on the cliffs of the upper part of the valleys, Dr. Balfour ! 
# L. Cliffortiana , Willd. ; DC. Prod. vii. 372, a native of Tropical 
America, is now well-established in Mauritius, and has often been dis- 
tributed as L. filiformis. It is a rather robust erect glabrous annual, 
1-1! in. high, with petioled broad ovate membranous deeply crenate 
leaves confined to the lower half of the stem, a long (|-1 ft.) lax 
panicle, bract-leaves minute linear-subulate, corolla purplish scarcely 
exceeding the linear calyx teeth, capsule oblong } in. long, the upper 
