Tas. 7742. 
MICHAUXIA T CHIHATOCHEFII. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLacea#2.—Tribe CAMPANULE. 
Genus Micuavxia, Lher.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.) 
Micuavxia Tchikatchewii; herba biennis, elata, erecta, robusta, patule hispida, 
caule simplici 6-7-pedali setoso-hispido inferne folioso in spicam densi- 
floram elongatam columnarem basi subpaniculatam terminante, foliis 
patulis et deflexis oblongis lineari-oblongis v. lyratis acutis obtusisve 
irregulariter inciso-dentatis v. lobulatis et serratis costa crassa infimis 
6-pollicaribus in petiolum angustatis euperioribus sessilibus v. amplexi- 
caulibus, floribus magnis in fasciculos confertos dispositis inferioribus bre- 
viter crasse que pedicellatis superioribus sessilibus, bracteis e basi cordata 
triangulari-ovatis acuminatis, calycis setaceo-hispiduli laciniis lanceolatis 
acuminatis, appendicibus deflexis ovato-v. triangulari-lanceolatis, corolla 
albe tubo hemisphzrico 2 poll. diam., lobis 8 tubo ee uilongis ovato- 
lanceolatis obtusis recurvis, filamentis triangulari-ovatis fimbriatis, stylo 
hispido, stigmate maximo oblongo v. ovoideo ima apice 8-lobulato. 
M. Tchihatchefii, Fisch. et Mey. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. i. (1804) p. 32. 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iii. p. 892. Gartenfl. 1896, p.173. Gard. Chron. 
1897, vol. xxi. p. 182, fig. 53. 
M. columnaris, Boiss. in Herb. Kotschy. 
A majestic biennial, discovered in the Cilician Taurus | 
by the late eminent traveller and explorer of Asia Minor, 
P. de Tchihatchef in 1849, the exact habitat being between 
Tchataloglou and Yailadjii in Cataonia. More recently it 
has been collected by the botanical traveller, Kotschy, in 
the same district, at elevations of two thousand eight 
hundred feet to five thousand feet above the sea, and 
amongst other localities in the celebrated defile of Gilek 
Boghas, by which Alexander the Great entered Cilicia. 
The specimen here figured was raised from seed pur- 
chased for the Royal Gardens from F. Stindermann, of 
Lindau, in 1896. ‘It flowered in a sheltered border in 
June, 1899, and died shortly afterwards. e 
Deser.—A tall, more or less hispid annual, six to seven 
feet high. Stem very stout, erect, simple, leafy below, 
passing upwards into a long, erect, cylindric, very dense- 
fld. spike, four to five inches in diameter, which is some- 
Novemper 1st, 1900. 
