Tas. 6188. 
WAHLEN BERGIA Krrarseri. 
Native of Hungary. 
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEZ.—Tribe CAMPANULEZ, 
Genus WAHLENBERGIA, Schrad, (Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Plant., v. ii, p. 555, ined.). 
WAHLENBERGIA Kitaibelii, caulibus decumbentibus foliisque anguste lineari- 
elongatis obtusiusculis pilosis, bracteis e basi ovato subulato-lanceolatis 
exterioribus recurvis floribus brevioribus, calycis tubo piloso, lobis ovato- 
so pe acuminatis pubescentibus sinubus denticulo interjecto, corolla 
pollicari. 
W. Kitaibelii, Alph. DC., Monog. Camp., p. 181. 
CAMPANULA graminifolia, Waldst. & Kitaib., Pl. rar. Hung., v. ii. p. 166, t. 154, 
Epralantaus Kitaibelii, Alph. DC., Prod. v., vii. p. 449. Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. v., 
xix, t. 1588. 
The plant here figured for the first time in England (for — 
indeed it has not been introduced before) is best known under 
the generic name of Ldraianthus, a genus now merged in 
Wahlenbergia, from which it is not distinguished by any 
available character. From Campanula, which it so much re- 
sembles, it differs in the cells of the capsule dehiscing at the 
tip between the calyx-lobes, instead of on the outside at the 
base of the lobes. Several species of Hdraianthus are 
described, all similar in habit, and all natives of South- 
eastern Europe. From all others this differs in the small tooth 
placed between the calyx-lobes, a character unfortunately not 
observed by our artist. W. Kitaibelii is a native of the 
Alps of Croatia, Transylvania, and the Banat, whence it 
was introduced by Messrs. Backhouse, who sent flowering 
specimens from York in May of the present year. 
Descr. Root stout, spindle-shaped, perennial. Stems 4-6 
inches long, spreading from the root, decumbent, and then 
ascending, slender, red brown, softly hairy, sparingly leafy. 
Leaves 2-3 inches long, chiefly radical, narrowly linear, about — 
4 of an inch broad, subacute, sparingly softly hairy, the 
marginal hairs recurved; cauline similar, but rather shorter. 
Heads 4-6-, rarely 1-2-flowered; bracts shorter than the 
