Tas, 7228, 
DIANTHUS CALLIZONUS. 
Native of Transylvania. 
Nat. Ord. CarroruyLLEa.—Tribe SILENEz. 
Genus Diantuus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 14-4.) 
Diantuvs (dentati) callizonus ; perennis, glaberrimus, multicaulis, caulibus 
ad apices fere foliosis, foliis patulis glaucis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis v. obtusis carinatis uninerviis margine integerrimis levibus 
v. scaberulis, floribus amplis solitariis breviter pedunculatis roseis zona 
interiore rubella albo punctata, bracteis 2-4 ovato-lanceolatis obtusis 
v. acutis herbaceis erecto-patentibus calyce paullo brevioribus v. zqui- 
longis, calycis cylindracei rubro striati lobis brevibus ovatis cilio- 
latis v. glabris acutis v. subaristatis petalorum lamina calyce longiore 
late cuneata striata apice crenata basin versus pilis erectis longis laxe 
barbata, stylis brevibus inclusis. 
D. callizonus, Schott et Kotschy, ex Schott in Bot, Zeit. vol. ix. (1851) p. 192; 
Walp. Ann. vol. iv. p. 275. 
D. nitidus, Baweng. Enum. Storp. Transylv. vol. i. p. 390 (non Kit.) ex Nym 
Ansp. 101. 
This lovely pink is a native of the calcareous alps of 
Transylvania, called Piatra Krajuluj, at an elevation of 
six thousand to seven thousand five hundred feet above the 
sea, where it was first made known by the celebrated 
botanical collector Kotschy. According to Nyman, how- 
ever, it is the D. nitidus of Baumgarten’s Transylvanian 
Flora, published in 1816, who cites as the habitat of 
D. nitidus the very mountains and elevation which 
D. callizonus inhabits. The affinity of D. callizonus is with - 
D. alpinus (Plate 1205 of this work) which has similarly 
solitary flowers, bracts, calyx, crenate petals with long 
hairs on the surface, and a deep red zone of colour at their 
bases speckled with white; but D. callizonus is a very much 
finer and more robust plant, with larger flowers and more 
glaucous leaves, like those of D. cxsius ; the flowers, too, 
are of a paler colour, though Mr. Dewar informs me that 
they do occur of a brighter colour than they are repre- 
sented in the figure here given, which faithfully represents 
the plant as placed before the artist. 
Maxcu Isr, 1892. 
