Tas. 7298. 
SYMP HYANDRA Hormannt. 
Native of Bosnia. 
*. 
Nat. Ord. CampanuLaces. Tribe CaMPaNULE. 
Genus Sympuyanpra, A.DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 503). 
Sympnyanpra, Hofmanni; tota plus minusve pilosa, caule ebasi ramoso 
folioso, ramis decumbentibus, foliis oblanceolatis acutis duplicato-den- 
tatis, inferioribus in petiolum elongatum angustatis supra glaberrimis, 
caulinis basi angustata sessilibus, floribus magnis terminalibus et in 
pedunculis foliosis axillaribus cernuis, calycis foliacei_segmentis amplis 
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis basi profunde cordatis, corolla calyce vix duplo 
longiore campanulata straminea demum alba, lobis brevibus rotundatis, 
fauce laxe pilosa, filamentis basi quadratis ciliatis. 
S. Hofmanni, Pantocsek, in Magyar. Novent-Lapok. vol. v. (1881), p. 150; e¢ in 
CEsterreich. Bot. Zeitsch. vol. xxxii. (1882), p. 149; Hofm. Beitrag zur 
Kennt. Fl. Bosn. ex Hofmann in Wien. Iilustrirt. Gart.-Zeit. vol. ix. (1884) 
352, cum. Ic.; Mast. in Gard. Chron. (1888), vol. ii. p. 760, fig. 107 (Hof- 
mannt). 
The genus Symphyandra consists of seven species of 
plants closely allied to and with altogether the habit of 
Campanula, but distinguished from that vast genus by 
the connation of the anthers, thus tending to annul the 
distinction between the tribes Campanulee and Lobeliew. 
It is Oriental in its distribution, extending from Bosnia 
and Crete to Armenia; the one supposed exception being 
the Himalayan 8. stylosa, of Royle, which is, however, a 
species of Phytewma (P. Thomsoni, Clarke). Of these 
seven species, only one has hitherto been figured in any 
British Tlustrated Botanical work, the S. pendula, A.DC. 
of the Caucasus, in Sweet’s Brit. Fl. Garden, Sev. ii. t. 
66, which differs from Hofmanni in the prostrate habit. 
Pantocsek seems to regard S. Hofmanni as nearest to the 
Transylvanian S. Wanneri (Campanula Wanner, Roch.), 
which is a much smaller plant, with an ascending stem, 
- narrower leaves, toothed calyx-segments, and a blue 
corolla. 
June Ist, 1893. 
