Tas. 8178. 
CODONOPSIS convoLvuLacra. 
Eastern Asia. 
CAMPANULACEAR. Tribe CAMPANULEAR. 
Coponopsis, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 557. 
Codonopsis convolvulacea, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1878, vol. xi. p. 195; 
Hook. Te, Plant. t. 2885; Hemsl, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 468 ; 
species calyce manifeste supero, corolla lobis ad basin usque sejunctis 
insignis. 
Herba perevnis. Caules volubiles, graciles, glabri, laxe ramosi. Folia mem- 
branacea, saepius sparsa, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, 2-5 em. longa, 
0-5-3 em. lata, apice subacuta vel acuta vel acuminata, basi cuneata vel 
traneata vel interdum cordata, margine subintegra vel minute denticulata, 
utrmque saepissime glabra: petioli gracillimi, 0°25-1°25 cm. longi. 
Pedunculi gilabri, elongati, volubiles. Calyx superus, 5-sectus, tubo 
obeonico glabro 0°75 em. logo, lobis triangulis lanceolatisve saepius 
acutis 0°5-1 em. longis 0-25-)-5 em. latis glabris vel raro parce ciliatis. 
Corolla cawpanulata, 5—-partita, 2-4 em. longa, limbo 3-5 em. lato, coerulea, 
lobis triangulis vel oblanceolatis acutis et saepe minutissime mucronu- 
latis. Milamenta glabra, radiatim refracta, extra prope basin appendicibus 
ovatis margine ciliatis induta; antherae oblongae, glabrae, introrse 
dehiscentes. Stigma 3-lobum. Capsu/a truncata vel subconica, 3—valvis, 
0°5-0°75 em. longa. 
The species of Codonopsis, of which twenty-two are now 
known, have been critically examined by Mr. T. F. Chipp, who 
considers that they admit of arrangement in four sections dis- 
tinguished by the relative position of the floral whorls. In 
one section, limited to the single species C. Tangshen, figured 
at t. 8090 of this work, the calyx is inferior. In another, 
represented by C. rotundifolia, figured in two varieties at 
t. 4942 and t. 5018, but including ten other species, the 
calyx is half-superior while the corolla is superior. In a 
third section, including seven species, none of which have 
yet been figured in this work, the calyx and corolla are both 
half-superior. In the last section, which includes only three 
species, the calyx is superior. It is to this section that C. 
convolvulacea, the plant now figured, belongs; within the 
section our plant stands alone in having the corolla-lobes 
free to the base. SO 
Frsrvuary, 1908. 
