Tas. 8765. 
RAMONDIA SERBICA. 
Serbia. 
GESNERIACEAE. Tribe CyRTANDREAE. 
Ramonpta, Rich. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1024. 
Ramondia serbica, Pantic, Fl. Princip. Serb. p. 498; Petrovid, Fl. Agri 
Nyssani, p. 573; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol, v. p. 168 ; 
Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1906, p. 230; C. F. Ball in The Garden, vol. Ixxii. 
1908, p. 349; Adamovié, Vegetationsverh. d. Balkanldnder, p. 221, fig. 5; 
species a R. pyrenaica, Rich., tota planta saepe minore, foliis basi magis 
attenuatis, corolla minore, antheris cyaneis apice muticis differt. 
Herba perennis, parva, acaulescens. Folia rosulata, spathulata vel obovata, 
irregulariter dentata, apice rotundata, basi in petiolum latum angustata, 
petiolo incluso 3-6°5 cm. longa, 1°5-3°5 cm. lata, primo omnino dense 
longeque ferrugineo-hirsuta, demum supra villosa, infra dense ferrugineo- 
hirsuta. Scapi adscendentes, 4-8 cm. longi, sat dense glanduloso-pubes- 
centes, 1-8-flori. Calyx 4-6-lobus, circiter 6 mm. longus, glanduloso- 
pubescens ; lobi oblongo-lanceolati, 4 mm. longi, basi 2 mm. lati, obtusi. 
Corolla subrotata, subaequaliter 4-6-loba, 2-2°5 cm. diametro, sparse et 
breviter glanduloso-puberula, lilacina, fauce tubi lutea barbata ; lobi late 
obovati, apice rotundati, circiter 1 cm. longi, 8-9 mm. lati. Stamina 4 
vel 5, rarius 6; filamenta crassiuscula, glabra, 2-3 mm. longa; antherae 
cordato-ovatae, dorso sparse puberulae, cyaneae, 2°5 mm. longae. Ovariwm 
late ovoideum, dense glanduloso-puberulum, 3 mm. longum, basi disco 
angusto circumdatum. Stylus circiter 8 mm. longus, crassus, stigmate 
capitato. Capsula-ellipsoideo-ovoidea, 7-12 mm. longa.—S. A. SKAN. 
The Ramondia here figured is a pretty plant for the 
rock garden. It bears a close general resemblance to the 
well-known 2. pyrenaica which, however, is usually more 
robust in growth and has larger flowers with yellow 
apiculate anthers. Its distribution ‘is particularly inter- 
esting. While the original /. pyrenaica and the four forms 
-—for they are really nothing more—of that species which 
have been regarded as distinct by Jordan, occur only in 
the Iberian Peninsula, extending as far south as the 
Province of Jaen in Spain, all the other European 
Gesneriaceae, comprising Ramondia serbica, R. Nathaliae, 
Pané. & Petrov., &. Heldreichii, Janka, Haberlea rhodo- 
pensis, Friv., with its variety virginalis, and /1, Ferdinandi- 
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