Tab. 6394. 



CAMPANULA maceosttla. 



Native of the Taurus Mountains. 



Nat Ord. Campanulace.<e. — Tribe Campanule.e. 

 Genus Campanula, Linn. {Benth. et Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 561). 



Campanula (medium) macrostyla; setis rigidis patentibus strigosa, caule elato 

 robusto folioso superne dicbotome ramoso paucifloro, foliis sessilibus inferiori- 

 bus ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis bispido-ciliatis superioribus 

 ovato-lanceolatis refiexis, iioribus amplis, caiycis tubo parvo hemispherico, 

 lobis magnis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis setoso- ciliatis, fructiferis valde 

 dilatatis, appendicibus late ovatis v. rotundatis deorsum productis tubum 

 velantibus cucullatis, corolla turbinato-campanulata intus pilosa violaceo- 

 reticulata ore ampliato, lobis brevibus triangularibus acutis, stylo elon- 

 gato, stigmate maximo fusiformi acuto cruribus 3 demum solutis patentibus. 



C. macrostyla, Boris, d Heldr. Diagn. ser. i. pars. 2, p. 65; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 vol. ii. p. 928. Oodefroy Lebmtf. Rev. Hortic, 1877, p. 307 ; figs. 51, 52. 



The most singular species of Campanula hitherto in- 

 troduced into English gardens. The rigid habit, bristly, 

 almost prickly, stem and leaves (like Helminthia echioides), 

 curious calycine appendages, short gaping corolla, and 

 wonderful stigma, are all marked characters, which 

 appear developed in greater excess in this species than in 

 any other. 



It is a native of two places in the Taurus mountains in 

 Southern Asia Minor; having, according to Bossier, been 

 found in gravelly soil on the shores of Lake Egirdir in Pisidia 

 (Anatolia), and in stony places at Ermenek in Isauria (Itchlli 

 of modern maps). The specimen here drawn flowered at Kew 

 in July of the present year. 



Desce, An annual, one to two feet high, branched from 

 the base, hispid with rigid spreading scattered bristles; 

 branches stout. Leaves scattered, small for the size of theplant, 

 sessile, hispid on both surfaces and ciliated with bristles ; 



NOVEMm:n 1st, 1878. 



