Tas. 4942. 
CODONOPSIS rorunpiFro.Lia. 
Round-leaved Codonopsis. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLace®.—Pentanpria Monoeynta. 
Coponopsts, Wall., Endl.—Gen. Char. Calyx tubo hemispherico, cum ovario 
connato, limbo semisupero quinquelobo. Corolla summo calycis tubo inserta, 
carnosula, campanulata, apice quinqueloba. Stamina 5, cum corolla inserta : fila- 
mentis basi sublatioribus antherisque liberis. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula 
in placentis ex angulo centrali loculorum plurima, anatropa. Stylus inclusus ; 
stigmata 3, ovata, crassa. Capsula hemispheerica, trilocularis, apice acuto, loculi- 
cido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, ovoideo-cylindrica. Embryo in axi albuminis 
carnosi orthotropus ; cotyledonibus brevissimis ; radicula umbilico proxima, centri- 
peta.—Herbee in India septentrionali monticole, sepius glaberrime ; caulibus e 
caudice lignoso adscendentibus, plerumque volubilibus ; foliis alternis v. oppositis, 
petiolatis, crenatis, subtus glaucescentibus v. incanis ; floribts axillaribus terminali-~ 
busque pedunculatis, luteo- v. ceruleo-virescentibus v. purpureis. Endl. 
Coponorsts rotundifolia ; pilosula, caule volubili, foliis plerisque oppositis pe- 
tiolatis ovatis subrotundatisve crenato-serratis, pedunculis terminalibus soli- 
tariis unifloris petiolo multo longioribus, calycis tubo hemisphzrico sulcato 
lobis late oblongo-ovatis foliaceis obtusis subdentatis patentibus tubo multo 
longioribus, corolla lobis calycinis sublongioribus urceolato-subgloboso-cam- 
panulata, lobis triangularibus patentibus, capsula basi rotundata. 
Coponopsis rotundifolia. Benth. in Royle, Lilustr. Bot. Himal. p. 254. ¢. 62. 
WAHLENBERGIA (§ Megasanthes) rotundifolia. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 425. 
Dr. Hooker, in his account of three species of Codonopsis, in 
his splendid ‘Illustrations of Himalayan Plants,’ proposes to unite 
Campanumea, Blume, and the first section of De Candolle’s 
Vi ahlenbergia (§ Megasanthes) with Codonopsis, as defined by 
De Candolle; and we think with much justice, notwithstanding 
the variable position of the calyx relatively to the ovary or cap- 
sule. That our plant is the same as Dr. Royle’s we have quite — 
satisfied ourselves ; but the leaves are never so rotundate in our 
Specimens, whether wild or cultivated, and his figure being drawn 
probably and coloured from dried specimens, the flowers are 
very faulty both in form, size, and colour. Our plants in the 
Royal Gardens were derived from seeds sent by Dr. Royle from 
imalaya. 
OCTOBER lst, 1856. 
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