Tas. 6484. 
CONANDRON RramonptorpEs. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. GEsSNERACER.—Tribe CyrTANDREA. 
Genus Conanpron, Sieb. et Zucc.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1024.) 
ConaNnDRON ramondioides ; acaulis, rhizomate subtuberoso apice viilis sericeis 
brunneis onusto, foliis oblongo- v. elliptico-ovatis subsessilibus v. in petiolum 
nudum v. late alatum eroso-dentatum contractis, acutis v. acuminatis irregula- 
riter argute eroso-dentatis membranaceis glabris, basi interdum valde obliquo 
v. ineequali cordato v. abrupte v. sensim angustato, scapis nudis hirsutis v. 
glabratis, cymis multifloris nutantibus, floribus pedicellatis albis v. roseis, 
calycis laciniis linearibus. 
C. ramondioides, Sieb. et Zuce. in Abh. Munch. Akad. vol. iii. 2, p. 729, t. 3, f. 1; 
Miquel, Prolus. Fl. Japon. p. 55; A. DC. Prodr, vol. ix, p. 273; Maximov, 
in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. xix. p. 587; Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 370; Masters 
in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 232. 
This very interesting plant has been elaborately described 
by Dr. Masters in the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” cited above, 
and to its description that botanist has added full observa- 
tions on its affinities and geographical relations to various 
allied or similar plants. The sum of these latter is, that 
Conandron is an aberrant member of a group of Gesnera- 
ceous plants, which spans the middle mountain regions of 
the Old World from Spain to Japan. Thus, it is represented 
in the Western Pyrenees by Ramondia pyrenaica (see Tab. 
236, Verbascum Myconi), which indeed is its nearest relative ; 
by a second species of that genus in Greece, by a third in 
Servia, and by Haberlea in the Balkan. From this last 
point there is a hiatus, till the Himalaya are reached, no 
representative having been hitherto discovered in the 
Caucasus or mountains of N. Persia; but in the Himalaya 
Didymocarpus takes up the eastward representation, and 
Bea (see Tab. 6468) terminates it in N. China. Wul/enia, 
which is European and Himalayan, is intercalated by Dr. 
Masters, as is the Japanese and American genus Shortia ; 
but these have, I think, no affinity with the above or with 
MakCH Ist, 1880. 
