Tas. 6590. - 
CAMPANULA T'OMMASINIANA, 
Native of Istria. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLace®.—Tribe CAMPANULER. 
Genus Campanua, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 561.) 
Campanuta (Eucodon) Tommasiniana ; glaberrima, caulibus e rhizomate confertis 
erectis simplicibus gracillimis, foliis radicalibus nullis, caulinis patulis et 
decurvis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis grosse 
serratis, floribus racemosis secundis gracile pedicellatis nutantibus, calycis tubo 
obconico, limbi lobis brevibus  subulatis integerrimis v. crenatis, corolla 
campanulate tubo cylindraceo, lobis brevibus triangularibus v. oblongis obtusis 
v. subacutis. 
C. Tommasiniana, Reuter Cat. Hort. Genev. 1865, p. 4. 
C. Waldsteiniana, var. Freyeri, Reichb. f. Ic. Flor. Germ. vol. xix. p- 117, t. 601. 
Though long known under the name of Campanula 
Waldsteiniana, this would seem to be a different plant from 
the Croatian one published under that name. It was first 
recognized as an undescribed species by Dr. Reuter, of 
Geneva, who described it from specimens cultivated in the 
Botanical Gardens of that city under the former name, and 
who called it after the eminent botanist who seems to have 
discovered it. Its native country is Monte Maggiore in 
Istria, whence it was sent, under the name of Waldsteiniana, 
to M. Boissier, by whom specimens were communicated 
from his garden in Valeyres to M. J. Gay in 1856, and 
which are preserved in the Kew Herbarium. The true € 
Waldsteiniana appears to be a much smaller species, with 
few flowers, obtuse lower leaves, and a shorter broader 
corolla, cleft half-way down into narrower and more acute 
lobes. I have seen no authentic specimens of it. 
C. Tommasiniana is quite hardy; it has been cultivated 
for some years at Kew in the open border, and flowers 
profusely in the month of August. 
Drscr. Quite glabrous. Stems numerous from a small 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1881. 
