Tas. 7472. 
OSTROWSKIA MAGNIFICA. 
Native of Central Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Campanunacex.—Tribe CAMPANULEA. 
Genus Ostrowsxia; (Regel in Act. Hort, Petrop. vol. viii. (1884) p. 686, t. 1.) 
OstRowsKIa magnifica; radice tuberoso, caule 3-5-pedali simplici robusto 
fistuloso, foliis breviter petiolatis verticillatis ovatis dentatis, floribus 
amplis in racemum terminalem pauciflorum dispositis erectis, calycis 
tubo turbinato sulcis per a limbi laciniis alternantibus in- 
structo, limbi lobis 5-9 lineari-lanceolatis, corolla late campanulata, tubo 
15-24 costato, lobis 5-9 brevibus latis, staminibus 5-9, filamentis brevibus 
basi dilatatis et pilosis, antheris lineari-elongatis demum tortis, ovario 
5-9-loculare, stylo crasso, stigmatibus 5-9 linearibus recurvis primum 
in columnam fusiformem cohwrentibus, capsula pergamenea turbinata poris 
lateralibus magnis oblongis dehiscente, seminibus ovoideis compressis 
anguste alatis. 
O. magnifica, Regel Deser. Pl. Nov. fase. ix. (1884) p. 46, t. 1. Gartenfl. vol. 
xxxvi. (1887) p. 639, fig. 160. André Rev. Hortic. (1888) p. 344, f. 72; 
(1893) p. 348. Gard. Chron. (1888) vol. ii. p. 65, f. 6. Illustr. Hortic. 
vol. xxxv. t.71. Journ. Hortic. Ser. II. vol. xxvii. 1893, p. 5385. Le 
Jardin (1888) p. 175. 
This stately plant is one of the many botanical dis- 
coveries in Central Asia made by Albert, son of the late 
Dr. de Regel, so long the able and energetic Director 
of the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburgh. 
During a long residence in Western Turkestan, where he 
served in the Imperial Army, and made some remarkable 
exploratory journeys, the then young Albert Regel devoted 
himself with great success to enriching the collections 
under his father’s charge, and Ostrowskia is one of the most 
striking of the results of his labours. Its precise locality 
is the Khanat of Dharwar in Eastern Bokhara, where it was 
found at an elevation of 7000 ft. above the sea. 
Botanically Ostrowskia is almost too closely allied to Cam- 
panula, from which it is distinguished by the whorled leaves, 
the numerous divisions of the calyx and lobes of the corolla 
of the cells of the ovary and stigmas, and by the pores 
of dehiscence of the capsule being double the sepals in num- 
ber. Ostrowskia, as Dr. de Regel states, commemorates 
May Ist, 1896, 
