Tas. 7274, 
CARALLUMA oampanunata. 
es Native of Ceylon. 
Nat. Ord. AscuertapEa.—Tribe 
Genus CaratiuMa, R. Br.(N.E. Br.in Hook.Ie. Pl. vol. xx. (Stapel. Bark. p. 7.) 
CaRaLLuMA campanulata ; ramis ascendentibus tetraquetris ad % poll. diam. 
pallide viridibus angulis crenatis, crenis foliis minutis serratis instructis, 
floribus:in umbellam terminalem dispositis longiuscule pedicellatis, 
sepalis lanceolatis subserrulatis, corolla 1 poll. diam. limbo plano velutino 
nudo saturate rubro-brunneo, lobis late ovatis acutis eciliolatis, corona 
exteriore 2-partita segmentis falcatis acutis, interioris lobis 5 simplicibus 
integris y. 3-dentatis antheras incumbentibus. 
C. campanulata, N. H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, ii. p. 369, fig. 61. 
Boucerosia campanulata, Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1287. 
B. ais i Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 209; Trimen Syst. Cat. Pl. Ceylon, 
p. 57. 
B. umbellata, var.? campanulata, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. De 70s 
In the Flora of British India, when treating of the 
species of Boucerosia, I found it impossible to describe 
them and those of Caralluma satisfactorily, from the 
fragmentary specimens in the Herbarium, and I stated that 
I was dependent for their characters and limitation mainly 
upon published and unpublished drawings and definitions. 
In respect of B. campanulata, I found that Thwaites, a 
most competent authority, had included it under B. wm- 
bellata, not even considering it a variety; but after giving 
due weight to the observations of Wight, who knew both 
species, I thought it a safer course to regard it as a variety, 
giving Wight’s characters of the thinner angles of the 
stem and more tubular corolla which wants the brown 
base of wmbellata, to which I added that according to 
Herbarium specimens the flowers of campanulata are 
smaller and the lobes of the corona narrower. Since that 
period, now ten years ago, the species of Boucerosia and 
Caralluma have been submitted to a searching examination 
by Mr. N. E. Brown, founded on living specimens, with 
the result that these two genera must be merged into one, 
January Ist, 1893. 
