Tas. 6485, 
CYANANTHUS tozarvs. 
Native of the Himalayan Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. CampanvuLace®.—Tribe CAMPANULER. 
Genus Cranantuus, Wall.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 557.) 
Cyanantuus lobatus; caulibus adscendentibus foliosis pilosis villosis v. glabratis, 
foliis glabratis cuneato-obovatis v. spathulatis irregulariter 3-5-lobatis v. inciso- 
crenatis, floribus breviter pedunculatis magnis speciosis, calycis tubo cylindraceo 
subinflato atro dense villoso breviter 5-lobo, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis, corolla 
lxete violaceze lobis patenti-recurvis late obovatis apiculatis apicibus barbellatis. 
C. lobatus, Wall. Cat. no. 1473; Benth. in Royle Ill. Himat. Pl. p. 309, t. 69, 
f. 1; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. N.S. vol. xx. t.6; Regel Gartenft. t. 888; Hook.f. 
and Thoms. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. ii. p. 19. 
This is certainly one of the most beautiful of the alpine 
Himalayan herbaceous plants, forming broad patches on 
the bare mountain flanks at elevations of 12,000 to 14,000 
feet from Kumaon eastwards to Sikkim, enlivened with a 
profusion of brilliant violet-blue horizontal or nodding 
flowers. It was discovered in Kumaon and Nepal by 
Wallich’s collectors in 1821, and was introduced into the 
Horticultural Gardens in 1845 by that gallant soldier and 
accomplished botanist, General Munro, C.B., whose lamented 
death took place a few weeks ago. ‘There, however, it 
seems to have flowered very imperfectly, the specimen 
figured in the Botanical Register having a shorter green 
faintly hairy calyx, and pale corolla with narrower lobes 
than in the specimen here figured. In his description of 
the plant Dr. Lindley alludes to the anomalous character of 
its wholly superior ovary and naked style, as opposed to its 
being placed in Campanulacee, to which Order Bentham 
had rightly referred it, and wherein it has been retained by 
all succeeding botanists. 
Cyananthus lobatus may be successfully treated as a rock- 
APRIL Ist, 1880, 
