Tas. 5606. 
MUSSCHIA Wottastont. 
Mr. Wollaston’s Musschia. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLacE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynti. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla profunde 5-fida, aurea. Stamina 
5, libera, filamentis basi glabris leviter dilatatis; anthere lineares, cuspi- 
datz. Ovariwm breve, 5-gonum ; stylus columnaris, stigmatibus 5 elongatis 
horizontalibus apice revolutis. Capsula 5-locularis, 10-nervis, lateraliter 
fissuris numerosis inter nervos dehiscens, loculis 5 cum lobis calycinis alter- 
nantibus. Semina ovoidea.—Suffrutices glabri; caule robusto erecto. Folia 
alterna, magna, serrata. Panicula pyramidata, terminalis.. Flores magni, 
Jlavi. 
Musscu1a Wollastoni ; herbacea, hirto-pubescens, suffrutescens, foliis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis acutis basi longe attenuatis sessilibus argute dupli- 
cato-serratis pubescentibus subtus hirsutis, panicula pyramidata elata 
multiflora, ramis patentibus, calycis sinubus vix appendiculatis, laci- 
niis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis tubo 2—4-plo longioribus, corolle 
velutine laciniis linearibus tubo longioribus. 
Musscata Wollastoni. Lowe in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 8. p. 298. 
Johnson, l.c. v. 9. p. 164. 
A beautiful plant, introduced from Madeira into Kew 
about ten or twelve years ago, where it has flowered annually 
since in a cool greenhouse. The genus to which it belongs is 
restricted to the Madeiran group, and might perhaps be best 
referred to Campanula as a section of that genus, equivalent 
to Eucodon and Medium; it is confined to the Madeiran 
islands. The only other known species of Musschia is the old 
M. aurea, a plant cultivated at Kew as early as 1777, and 
figured in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ t. 57. 
The Rev. Mr. Lowe, who is the author of this species, de- 
scribes it as being found but rarely in shaded valleys of Ma- 
deira, above three to four thousand feet elevation, and adds, 
in a private letter, that its habit is so much like that of 
Sonchus fruticosus, that it is only distinguishable at a little 
distance, when out of flower, by the non-sinuate leaves. 
Descr. A large-leaved undershrub. Stem naked, usually 
OCTOBER lst, 1866. 
