Tas. 8715. 
CAMPANULA Epuesta. 
Asia Minor. 
CAMPANULACEAE. ‘Tribe CAMPANULEFAE. 
Campanuta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561. 
Campanula Ephesia, Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iii. p. 898; species pulcherrima 
is C. tomentosae, Vent., sed robustior, foliis floribusque duplo vel 
“yee majoribus et corolla late campanulata nec tubuloso-campanulata 
iffert. 
Herba perennis, ubique albo-tomentosa; caulis 30-45 cm. longus, ad 6 mm. 
crassus, decumbens. olia radicalia 10-21 cm. longa, lyrata, segmentis 
lateralibus decurrentibus omnibus oblongis obtusis integris vel obtuse 
dentatis inferioribus minoribus, superioribus 1-2 cm. longis, 0°7-2 cm. latis 
ellipticisque obtuse dentatis, segmento terminali 2-6 em. longo, 1°5-4°5 em: 
lato, ovato vel elliptico-ovato obtuso, obtuse dentato vel obtuse lobato 
dentatoque; folia caulina superiora sessilia, 1°8-4°5 cm. longa, anguste 
oblonga, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta, dentata. Flores secundo- 
racemosi vel secundo-paniculato-racemosi; pedicelli 0°5-1°5 em. longi. 
Calyx 5-lobus, appendicibus cum tubo aequilongis; lobi 1°5-2 em. longi, 
deltoidei, acuminati. Corolla 4-4°5 cm. longa, 3°5-4 cm. diametro, late 
campanulata, lobis 1 cm. longis latissime ovatis subacutis recurvis, intus 
glabra, extra albo-tomentosa, coerulea. Stamina alba; filamenta basi 
latissime ovato-dilatata, ciliata. Ovariwm breviter et late obconicum, 
5-loculare; stigmata 5, revoluta, viridia.—C. tomentosa, Lam. Encyc. 
Meth. vol. i. p. 584, ex parte; non Vent.—N. E. Brown. 
The handsome Campanula here figured is a native of 
the province of Aidin in Asia Minor, where it has been 
collected in the neighbourhood of the ruins of Ephesus 
and Priene. Its nearest ally appears to be C. tomentosa, 
Vent., a native of Greece. The Ephesian plant is, how- 
ever, of more robust habit and has larger leaves and 
flowers than the Grecian one; the corolla in C. Ephesia, 
the subject of our plate, is from twice to thrice as wide 
as that of C. tomentosa, and is much less tubular in form. 
The introduction of this species horticulture owes to 
Sir J. N. Barran, Bart., by whom a living plant was 
brought to England from Priene, where it had been 
_ found by him in May, 1913. This plant was kept in a 
_ potin light soil, mainly sand, with some scraps of lime- 
- June, 1917, 
