Lobelia.'] 
CAMPANULACEiE. 
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half protruding from the calyx-tube. It was found by Dr. Balfour in 
Rodriguez at the mouth of the Riviere Grande. 
Order LIX. ERICACE.ZE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx small, inferior, with 4-5 
lobes. Corolla-tube campanulate or urceolate, with as many teeth as the 
sepals. Stamens twice as many as the sepals, hypogynous ; anthers 
2-celled, dehiscing by a pore at the lop of each of the cells. 
Ovary free, 4-5-celled ; placentation axile ; ovules many in a cell ; 
style simple ; stigma simple. Fruit a small capsule, with regular 
loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds many, minute, albuminous. — Evergreen 
shrubs, with exstipulate alternate leaves, the flowers in clusters or 
racemes. Distrib. Temperate regions. Species about 1000. 
Corolla campanulate, deeply cleft, tetramerous. Leaves 
crowded, 1 -nerved 1. Philippi a. 
Corolla urceolate, shallowly cleft, pentamerous. Leaves flat, 
lanceolate or oblong 2. Agauria. 
1. PHILIPPIA, Klotzsch. 
Calyx minute, 4-fid. Corolla small, campanulate, with 4 teeth about 
as long as the tube. Stamens 8, included ; filaments free or con- 
nate ; anthers not tailed, opening by two pores at the top. Ovary 4- 
celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style filiform ; stigma conspicuous, 
peltate, lobed, Fruit a dry capsule, with loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds 
minute. — Glabrous heath-like shrubs, with crowded small coriaceous 
1 -nerved leaves and small campanulate flowers at the end of the 
branches. Distrib. Cape and Mascaren Isles. Species about 20. 
Leaves in. long 1. P. abietina. 
Leaves T y~t ha. long 2. 3j\ Montana. 
Leaves in. long 3. P. brachyphylla. 
1. P. abietina, Klotzsch ; Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 696. A much- 
branched shrub, 2-5 feet high, with crowded erect branches. Leaves 
long, erecto-patent, densely crowded, glossy on both sides, ligulate, 
rigidly coriaceous, with revolute edges. Flowers clustered at the end 
of the branches in the axils of the leaves, on very short pedicels. 
Calyx with four unequal obtuse lobes. Corolla T Viu. long, campanulate, 
reddish-brown. Stamens free, glabrous, the anther dilated at the base. 
Stigma mostly exserted. Salaxis abietina, Bory ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 
195. S. mauritiana, Bojer in Wall. Cat. No. 1525. 
Var. arborescens, Baker. Pedicels much longer (£-£ in.) so that 
the clusters of flowers are laxer, rather pilose. Stigma much exserted. 
Salaxis arborescens, Willd . ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 195. Philippia arbo- 
rescens, Klotzsch ; Benth. loc. cit. 
