Tap. 8299. 
CAMPANULA BEAUVERDIANA. 
Transcaucasia and Northern Persia. 
CAMPANULACEAE. Tribe CAMPANULEAE. 
CamPANULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 561. 
Campanula Beauverdiana, Fomin in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis, vol. i. p. 12, 
t. i. fig. 1; species C. Steveni, M. Bieb., affinis sed calycis tubo indumento 
papilloso vestito, corollaque ad tertiam partem Jobata differt. 
Herba glabra vel minute hirta, ad 6 dm. alta. Rhizoma tenue, breve. Caules 
graciles, erecti vel ascendentes. Folia inferiora oblongo-ovata vel late 
ovata, 6 em. longa, 1°5 em. lata, obtusa, crenato-serrata, in petiolum paullo 
quam lamina longiorem attenuata; folia superiora sessilia, quam inferiora 
minora, lineari-lanceolata vel lanceolata, acuta, parce glanduloso-denticulata ; 
folia suprema linearia, acuminata, basi subtus tuberculo spongioso instructa. 
Flores solitares vel pauci; pedicelli graciles,ad7cm. longi. Calycis tubus 
anguste obconicus, 7 mm. longus, 10-costatus, inter costas papillis albis 
inflatis praeditus; lobi quam tubus usque ad duplum longiores, anguste 
lanceolati, acuminati. Corolla azurea, glabra, late campanulata, 3 cm. 
diametro, quam calycis lobi duplo vel ultra duplo longior; lobi quam tubus 
duplo breviores. Filamenta e basi subquadrata, pilosa, subulata, glabra. 
Stylus ad mediam partem divisus; rami purpurei, extra dense hirsuti. 
—-O, Steveni, var. vesiculosa, Bornm. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2”* sér. vol. vii. 
p. 774.—C. H. Wriext. 
The plant of Campanula Beauverdiana which forms the 
subject of our illustration was raised at Kew in 1908 from 
seed received from the Botanic Garden, Tiflis. The species 
was described in 1905 from specimens collected on the 
mountains near Mzchet, some fifteen miles from Tiflis. It 
has since then been described as a variety of C. Steveni, 
M. Bieb., by Dr. Bornmiiller, from material gathered by 
himself on Mount Elburs in North Persia (not Mount 
Elburz in the Caucasus) at an altitude of 8,500 ft. above sea- 
level. In this locality it was found growing in company 
with typical C. Steveni, a widely distributed species to 
which, in the dried state, C. Beauverdiana bears a close 
resemblance. In the living state, however, they are readily 
distinguished, for the calyx of C. Steveni is without any 
indumentum, while the purple-violet corolla is lobed half- 
Frsrvary, 1910. : 
