Tas. 8245. 
NIGELLA INnTEGRIFOLIA. 
Turkestan. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAE. 
NieEvua, Linn,; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 8. 
Nigella integrifolia, Regel in Enum. Pl. Semenov. Suppl. 2, p.10; Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mose, vol. xliii. 1870, p. 246; <Aitch. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot, sér. 2, 
vol. iii. p. 30, t. 2; Fedtschenko in Centralbl. Beth. vol. xviii. 2, 1905, p. 212; 
Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. xliv. p. 226; species ab omnibus 
hucusque cognitis floribus campanulatis insigniter recedens. 
Herba gracilis, annua, primum obscurissime puberula, in statu sylvestri erecta, 
pauciramosa, vix ultra 30 cm. alta; in hortis major caulibus multiramosis 
45-60 cm. longis gracilibus debilioribus plus minusve vagantibus et - 
tortuosis. Folia subbasalia lineari-spathulata, integerrima, ad 10 cm. 
usque vel ultra longa; caulina inferiora linearia, indivisa, acuta, intermedia 
superioraque subsessilia, palmatim 3-9-partita, segmentis perangustis, 
acutissimis, saepius 3-5 cm. longis; summa involucrum formantia flores 
singulares includentia. Flores coerulei, campanulati, circiter 2-2°5 em. 
longi. Sepala saepius 5, petaloidea, oblonga, marginibus arcte approxi- 
mata, petala stamina et carpella includentia, apice rotundata, leviter 
recurva. Petala seu nectaria saepius 8, linearia, ad medium usque bifida, 
obscure ciliata, intus basi nectarifera. Stamina circa 20. Carpella 
saepius 3, circiter 1 cm. longa, ultra medium connata, breviter rostrata, 
rostris induratis divergentibus. Semina trigono-compressa, papilloso- 
rugosa, dorso tricostata, albida—. diversifolia, Franch. in Ann, Sc. Nat. 
sér. 6, vol. xv. 1883, p. 220, t. 10. Komarofia diversifolia, 0. Kuntze in 
Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. x. p. 144; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
vol. iii. pars ii. p. 274; Ind. Kew. Suppl. i. p. 234 (sphalm. divaricata).— 
W. B. HEeMsLey. 
Nigella integrifolia has been in cultivation at Kew since 
~1894 when seeds were received from the Imperial Botanic 
Gardens, St. Petersburg; specimens in flower were also 
received in July, 1907, from Mr. W. E. Gumbleton. Four 
of its congeners have already been figured in this work : 
N. damascena, Linn. (t. 22); N. orientalis, Linn. (t. 1264); 
N. hispanica, Linn, (t. 1265), and the inconspicuous WN. 
Garidella, Spenn.; the last named appearing (t. 1266) 
under the name Garidella Nigellastrum, Tae. From these 
and all the other species of Nigella the plant now figured is 
readily distinguished by its bell-shaped flowers which 
strongly resemble those of a Campanula. 
Mazrcg, 1909. 
