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Pratia (named after Prat-Bernon, with Freycinet's voyage). Campanulaceae. Slender prostrate or creeping herbs, rarely ascending or erect, sometimes grown for ornament.
Pratia (named after Prat-Bernon, with Freycinet's voyage). Campanulaceae. Slender prostrate or creeping herbs, rarely ascending or erect, sometimes grown for ornament.
Leaves alternate, toothed: infl. axillary, in 1-fld. peduncles; fls. rather small, often unisexual; calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 5-parted; corolla oblique, split to the base at the back, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-parted, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 5, 2 lower tipped with short bristles, 3 upper naked; ovary 2celled: fr. a globose or obovoid berry.—About 30 species, mostly from Austral, and New Zeal., but also in S. E. Asia and S. Amer. Several species seem to be more or less extensively cult, abroad. The genus is very closely related to Lobelia and similarly cult., differing from it in the indehiscent more or less succulent fr. They are used both as greenhouse and hardy herbaceous rockwork plants, depending on the species.
Leaves alternate, toothed: inflorescence axillary, in 1-flowered peduncles; flowers rather small, often unisexual; calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 5-parted; corolla oblique, split to the base at the back, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-parted, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 5, 2 lower tipped with short bristles, 3 upper naked; ovary 2 celled: fruit a globose or obovoid berry.—About 30 species, mostly from Austral, and New Zeal., but also in S. E. Asia and S. Amer. Several species seem to be more or less extensively cultivated abroad. The genus is very closely related to Lobelia and similarly cultivation, differing from it in the indehiscent more or less succulent fruit. They are used both as greenhouse and hardy herbaceous rockwork plants, depending on the species.
P. ilicifolia, Hort., listed abroad as a charming little creeping plant with evergreen foliage studded through all the summer months with large pure white fls. followed by large lilac-colored berries, and loving a damp spot, is unknown botanically.
P. ilicifolia, Hort., listed abroad as a charming little creeping plant with evergreen foliage studded through all the summer months with large pure white flowers followed by large lilac-colored berries, and loving a damp spot, is unknown botanically.
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