Tas. 8837. 
SYMPHYANDRA astatTica, 
Corea. 
CAMPANULACEAE. Tribe CAMPANULEAR. 
Sympuyanpra, A.DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 563. 
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Symphyandra asiatica, Nakai in Tokyo Bot. Mag. vol. xxiii. p. 188 (1909) ; 
species S. creticae, A.DC., affinis sed foliis saepissime minoribus, 
inflorescentiis laxioribus differt. 
Herba perennis, caulibus cum inflorescentiis 2-8 dm. altis glabris subfistulosis. 
Folia caulina ovata vel lanceolato-ovata, apice acuminata, basi acuta, 
truncata vel cordata, usque ad 7°5 cm, longa, 4 cm. lata, margine grosse 
incurvato-dentata, costa et nervis lateralibus in pagina superiore leviter 
impressis, subtus prominentibus, supra pilis albis sparse instructa, subtus 
glabra vel fere glabra; petiolus fere 3 em. longus, glaber. Inflorescentia 
ramosa, laxa, floribus circiter 5 nutantibus praedita bracteae (folia floralia) 
parvae, sessiles, inferiores majores, summae lineares, 3-4 mm. longae. 
Receptaculum turbinatum, 5 mm. longum, apice 3°3 mm. diametro, 
glabrum. Calycis segmenta distantia, linearia, 1-1-6 cm. longa, 1°5-3 mm. 
lata, margine serrata, in alabastro plus minusve recurvata. Corolla 
campanulata, 4 cm. longa, glabra; lobi semi-orbiculares mucronati, paulo 
patentes, 3°5 cm. diametro. Stamina 1°6 cm. longa, filamentis superne 
glabris inferne hirsutis basi dilatatis, parte dilatata ovata vel hemisphaerica 
2 mm. longa hirsuta margine dense ciliata, antheris linearibus connatis 
1 cm. longis. Discus epigynus inflato-hemisphaeroideus, 1:5 mm. altus. 
Stylus cum stigmatibus 2°8 cm. longus, superne puberulus, inferne glaber. 
—Hanabusaya asiatica, Nakai in Flora Koreana, vol. ii. p. 62 (Journ. Coll. 
Sci. Tokyo, vol, xxxi. 1911).—W. B. Turri. 
The striking Campanulaceous species now figured was 
first described by Mr. Nakai in 1909 as a Symphandra. 
Two years later its author came to the conclusion that it 
represents a distinct genus which he named //anabusaya. 
In the work in which this revised view is stated Mr. Nakai 
does not lay emphasis on the points by which it may be 
distinguished from Symphandra and, as we have failed to 
detect any such, we have here employed his original name, 
S. asiatica. Perhaps the most remarkable feature con- 
nected with this Corean plant is its geographical isolation. 
The other species of the genus Symphandra are contined 
to South-eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Armenia, Lazistan 
January—Marcu, 1920, 
