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Tas. 7714. 
CAMPANULA MiIRaBILIs. 
Native of the Western Caucasus. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLace#.—Tribe CAMPANULEA. 
Genus Campanuta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.) 
Campsnu.a (Medium) mirabilis; biennis?, radice, fusiformi, caule robusto 
pyramidatim densissime ramoso, ramis patentibus foliosis multifloris, 
foliis glabris coriaceis inferioribus 6-pellicaribus . obovato-spathulatis 
obtusis in petiolam alatum angustatis grosse inzequaliter crenato-serratis 
marginibus spinuloso-ciliolatis saturate viridibus, superioribus minoribus, 
ramis sessilibus ovato-cordatis, racemis confertis simplicibus v. ramosis 
pauci-multifioris, pedunculis 1-2-floris, pedicellis brevibus erectis brac- 
teatis, bracteis minutis, calycis tubo turbinato, lobis erectis ovato- 
lanceolatis appendicibusque ovatis deflexis spinuloso-ciliolatis, corolla 
ampla late campanulata ad 2 poll. lata 5-loba pallide lilacina, lobis ovato- 
rotundatis obtusis pilis longis flaccidis ciliatis, filamentis filiformibus 
basi in laminam 4-orbicularem dense papilloso-ciliatam abrupte dilatatis, 
antheris elongatis liberis, stigmatibus 3 linearibus, capsule valvis 
basilaribus, seminibus anguste alatis. 
C. mirabilis, Alboff in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vol. iii. (1895) p. 228, t. 3. A 
1898, vol. xlvii. p. 192, fig. 57. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 616; 1898, 
vol. ii. p. 33, fig. 10, p. 108; 1899, vol. ii. p. 275, figs. 92, 93. Correvron in 
Rev. Hortic. 1895, p. 677. 
The very remarkable Campanula here figured was dis- 
covered by Mr. N. Alboff on limestone rocks in the 
Western Caucasus: The precise habitat which its dis- 
coverer gives for it is Arbika-Akhegoesh, in the province 
of Abkasia, at an elevation of two thousand one hundred 
feet. Though belonging to the same sub-division of the 
enus in Boissier’s arrangement of the Oriental species to 
which C. alliarizfolia, Willd. (macrophylla, Sims, Bot. 
Mag. tab. 912), and OC. collina, Bieb. (t. 927) both 
Caucasian species belong, it differs from them, and all 
others of the genus, in the singular, rather low conical form 
of the whole plant, its dense ramification, and the profusion 
of large flowers which almost hide the stem, branches, and 
leaves. 
The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to their old 
correspondent, the distinguished horticulturist, Mr. Max 
Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, for the plant of C. mirabilis 
here figured, which flowered, when two years old, under a 
May Ist, 1900, 
