Tas. 4748. 
CAMPANULA Viupa.it. 
Vidal's Bellflower. 
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4555.) 
Campanuta Vidalii; inferne fruticulosa, ramosa, viscida, ramis sulcatis, foliis 
(seepe rosulatis) oblongo-spathulatis grosse serratis superioribus parvis brac- 
haat gr P ee 
tezeformibus, floribus racemosis cernuis, pedicellis bracteolatis, lobis calycinis 
brevibus triangularibus, corolla urceolato-campanulata (alba), staminibus re- 
motis, disco hypogyno amplo ambitu crasso aurantiaco. 
CaMPANULA Vidalii. H. C. Wats. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 684. Walp. Repert. 
Bot. v. 6. p. 387. 
CAMPANULA Vidaliana. H. C. Wats. “ Plants collected in the Azores, in 1842, 
S113." 
We gave a faithful representation from a dried specimen of 
this remarkable Campanula in our ‘Icones Plantarum ;’ but our 
cultivated plant has a very different and really striking appear- 
ance. It has not (from want of age perhaps) become so ligneous 
nor so gouty; it has fewer rosulate leaves, and. they are less 
crowded: but the flowers are larger and more numerous. ‘The 
hypogynous disc of the flower is singularly broad, and surround- 
ed by a thick, bright, orange-coloured annulus, on the outside of 
which the stamens are placed, distant from each other, and they 
never seem to incline over the disc, as is so common m other 
Bell-flowers. There seem to be no tangible characters for dis- 
tinguishing it as a genus from Campanula. It has however a 
very peculiar habit: is a native of the Azores, and was detected 
on an insulated rock off the east coast of Flores, between Santa 
Cruz and Porta Delgada, by Captain Vidal, R.N. We are m- 
debted for our living plants to H. C. Watson, Esq. They are 
quite hardy, and flower in August. 
Descr. Everywhere glabrous and viscid. Root perennial. 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1858. 
Stem one to two feet high, branching from the base ; the old 
stems gouty and tortuous and subligneous below. Some of a 
