Tas. 5018. 
CODONOPSIS rotunprro.ia ; var. grandiflora. 
Round-leaved Codonopsis ; largeflowered var. 
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4942.) 
Coponorsts rotundifolia ; pilosula, caule volubili, foliis plerisque oppositis pe- 
tiolatis ovatis subrotundatisve crenato-serratis, pedunculis terminalibus 
axillaribusque solitariis unifloris petiolo multo longioribus, calycis tubo 
hemisphzerico sulcato lobis late oblongo-ovatis foliaceis obtusis subdentatis 
patentibus tubo multo longioribus, corolla lobis calycinis sublongiore ven- 
tricoso campanulato, limbi lobis triangularibus patentibus, capsula basi 
rotundata. 
Coponorsts rotundifolia. Benth. in Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 254. t. 62. 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4942. Hook. fil. et Thoms. Pracurs. ad Fl. Ind. in 
Journ. of Proceed. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 14. 
Wan tenBerata (§ Megasanthes) rotundifolia. De Cand. Prod. v. 7. p. 4.25. 
B. foliis seepissime alternis floribusque majoribus, corolla intus purpureo irrorata. 
(Tas. Nostr. 5018.) 
Raised from Himalayan seeds in the Royal Gardens of Kew,. 
where the flowering specimens from which the figure is taken 
were produced in July 1857. Certainly the larger, more gene- 
rally alternate leaves, the larger flowers, and the different colour 
and markings, in the inside especially, at the mouth of the 
corolla, led to the suspicion that it would prove a new species ; 
but a more full examination has brought us to the opposite con- _ 
clusion, and proved that it can only be considered a variety 
of the Codonopsis rotundifolia, Tab. Nostr. 4942; and as such 
we here figure it, referring to that Plate for the further characte- 
ristics of the species. The present is the more ornamental of 
the two; the colour of the corolla being more variegated. In 
shape and in the spreading calyx, these flowers very much re- 
semble those of the Deadly Nightshade, Atropa Belladonna. 
Fig. 1. Receptacle of the flower, stamens, and pistil :—magnified. 
NOVEMBER IsT, 1857. 
