Tas. 8827. 
CAMPANULA SULPHUREA. 
Orient. 
CAMPANULACEAE. Tribe CAMPANULEAE. 
CampanuLa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Campanula sulphurea, Boiss, Diagn. ser. i. p. 64 et Fl. Or. vol. iii. p. 930; 
Post, Fl. Syr. Palest. et Sinat, p. 505; Muschler, Man. Fl. Egypt, 
vol. ii. p. 945; species C. strigosae, Russ., affinis sed calycis laciniis 
apice haud subulatis et corolla intense lutea distinguitur. 
Herba annua, caulibus saepissime patule ramosis vel interdum fere simplicibus 
plus minusve strigoso-hirsutis. Folia caulina oblongo-linearia, apice 
obtusa, basi rotundata, usque ad 1°6 em. longa et 5 mm. lata, strigoso- 
hirsuta, margine strigoso-ciliata, costa nervisque inconspicuis, sessilia. 
Flores terminales vel axillares; florum axillarium pedicelli usque ad 8 cm. 
longi; bracteae bracteolaeque foliis similes nisi minores, Receptaculum 
late obconicum, glabrum. Calycis laciniae lanceolatae, acutiusculae, 
1:2 cm. longae, 8 mm. latae, margine et interdum ad costam strigoso- 
ciliatae; appendiculae ovatae, obtusae, 4 mm. longae, valde strigoso- 
hirsutae. Corolla campanulata, glabra, intense lutea, circiter 2 cm. longa, 
fauce 1 cm. diametro, 5-lobo, lobis oblongo-ovatis 9 mm. longis 5 mm. 
latis. Stamina filamentis planis 2°25 mm, longis, 2 mm. latis, parte 
superiore ciliata excepta glabris, antheris 4 mm. longis. Stylus stigmatibus 
tribus 2°5 mm. longis inclusis 1:1 cm. longus, inferne glaber, superne 
dense pubescens, Capsula nutans, breviter obconica.—W. B. TuRRILt, 
The Campanula here figured inhabits dry, sandy places 
in the coastal districts of Syria and Palestine. It has 
also been recorded from the Isthmic Desert and the 
northern parts of the Arabian Desert within Egyptian 
territory. Its nearest allies in the genus are C. strigosa, 
Russ., figured at t. 5068 of this work, C. Reuteriana, 
Boiss. et Bal., and C. hierosolymitana, Boiss., all oriental 
species, in which the corollas are blue or violet. In 
C. sulphurea the corolla is of an intense yellow colour, a 
character which at once marks it off from the three. 
nearly related species mentioned. The plant figured in 
our plate was raised at Kew from seed presented by 
Major P. M. Armitage, Great Budworth, Northwich, who 
had received a supply from Palestine in 1917. The 
plants in cultivation at Kew, though they flowered freely 
OcTroBER-DECEMBER, 1919. 
