Tas. 8090. 
CODONOPSIS TancsuHen. 
China. 
CaMPANULACER. Tribe CAMPANULEZ. 
Coponorsis, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 557. 
Codonopsis Tangshen, Oliv.in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1966; C. lanceolate, Benth. 
et Hook. f. affinis, sed petiolis longioribus, foliis tenuioribus plus minusve 
pubescentibus basi rotundatis, Horibus longius pedunculatis et calyce 
profundius partito vix basi ovario adnato differt. 
Herba perennis radice sat longa valde incrassata. Caules volubiles, graciles, 
usque ad 10 ped. longi, laxe ramosi, glaberrimi vel juxta nodos parce 
pubescentes. Jolia membranacea, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, 14-25 poll. 
longa, 3-1} poll. lata, obtusiuscula, basi rotundata vel rare subcuneata, 
remote crenato-serrata, plus minusve minute setuloso-pubescentia, rarius 
fere omnino glabrata; petioli gracillimi, sape 3-$ poll. longi. Peduneuli 
usque ad 2% poll. longi, foliis oppositi vel extra-axillares vel flores ramulos 
breves terminantes. Calyx profunde partitus, fere omnino liber, per- 
sistens, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis 6-10 lin. longis 2-3 lin. latis 
acutis vel obtusiusculis. Corolla campanulata, 14-1$ poll. longa, 
viridescens, intus purpureo-punctata et purpureo-lineata; “lobi 5, late 
deltoidei, acuti, circiter ¢ poll. longi. Capsula subglobosa, 1 poll. diam., 
basi calyce deflexo appendiculata. 
Codonopsis includes eighteen species, all Asiatic, and 
chiefly natives of the Himalayan region, where ten are 
found. OC. rotundifolia, Royle, was figured at t. 4942 of 
this work, and the variety grandiflora at t. 5018. C. cor- 
data, Hassk. (t. 5372) is now referred to Campanumea, 
which chiefly differs from Codonopsis in having a baccate 
instead of a capsular fruit. 
The species here figured is of interest on account of its 
root yielding a drug in very common use as a tonic among 
the Chinese, to whom the plant is known as the “ T‘ang- 
shén’’ (Bastard Ginseng). Mr. E. H. Wilson, who col- 
lected seeds and specimens for Messrs. James Veitch & 
Sons, states that it is common in thickets on the mountains 
of Hupeh and Szechuen, between 5,000 and 8,000 feet.’ 
It is found also in Shensi and Shansi. The annual exports 
of the drug from Hankow to other parts of China amount 
to some 9,000 piculs—about 1,200,000 lbs. 
The figure was prepared from specimens received from 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in August, 1903. <A plant 
Auveust Ist, 1906. 
