270 CAMPANULARUM NOVARUM DECAS PRIMA. 



and this explains why Visiani (1842) and Reichenbach, jnn. (1860), 

 ascribe to G. Garganica their Illyrian specimens, which bear, more- 

 over, a great resemblance to the type. 



The group is nearly related to C. Elatines L., and C. elatinoides 

 Moretti, and also with C. Portenschlagiana R. & S. C.fenestrellata, 

 especially, has a striking similitude to the latter, as far as leaves 

 and stems are concerned. 



In order to limit descriptions of the single species to differential 

 characters, I here give the common characters of the group. 



Rbizoma (4-8 cm. long., 4-6 mm. crass.), subeburneum ob 

 foliorum vetustorum bases persistentes dense noduloso-squamosum. 

 Caules diffusi, e saxorum rinds pendentes vel ascendentes, foliosi 

 ramosi. Folia cordato-orbicularia vel cordato-ovata, grosse crenato- 

 dentata petiolata subsimilia ; radicalia petiolis limbo 3-6-plo longi- 

 oribus prsedita. Flores inter minores stricti racemosi. Receptaculum 

 rotundato-cyathiforme, nervis carinalibus conspicuis, suturalibus 

 brevibus. Calicis lobi lanceolati. Corolla cserulea tubo albicante, 

 in speciebus vestitis extus puberula, intus glabra aut imo pilosula, 

 ad f et ultra fissa, lobis patenti-refiexis. Staminum squamae dense 

 fimbriatae ciliis obtusis ; filamenta squamis plus minus longiora an- 

 gusta ; antherse lineares apiculo subulato. Gynceceum 3-merum. 

 Stilus exsertus caerulescens, pars inferior glabra superiore incrassata 

 pilosa duplo fere longior. Stigmata linearia. Placentae crassse, ad 

 dimidium usque bilobae. Ovula pauca ovalia. Capsula globosa, 

 nervis prominentibus, parietibus pellucidis, rima transversali supra 

 basin dehiscens. Semina parva crassiuscula, ambitu subovalia, basi 

 truncata, uno latere marginata. 



C. garganica Ten. (sensii stricto). Dense hirsuta vel incano- 

 pubescens, raro glabella flaccida. Caules (20-45 cm. long. 1-lf mm. 

 crassi) ab imo fere ramosi. Folia dentibus obsoletis aut conspicuis 

 latis obtusis prsedita ; radicalia subrotunda ; caulina cordata 

 plus minus acuta. Flores maiusculi, pedunculis tenuibus 3-5 -plo 

 longioribus patulis suffulti, racemum longum laxum anguste 

 pyrauiidalem formantes. Alabastrum angustum cylindrico-conicum. 

 Receptaculuni ellipsoideo-cyathiforme. Calicis lobi anguste lan- 

 ceolati acuti, corolla -| breviores, sub anthesi et postea patulo- 

 reflexi. Corolla (10 mm. alta, 15 mm. lata) intus glabra ad f 

 fissa, lobis pulchre cyaneis arcuato-patulis. Staminum squamae 

 cordato-acuminatae, filamentis aequilongae ciliarum longitudine 

 8-plo latiores ; antherae filamentovum squamarumque summam 

 longitudine sequantes. Pollen sulfureum. Stilus corolla duplo 

 longior; stigmata stilo 8-plo breviora. Capsula parva (3 : 4 

 mm.). Semina (0-5 : 0-45 mm.) planiuscula lurida opaca rugosula. 

 Flor. Iunio. (v. v.). 



Syn. Tilli, Cat. hort. Pis., 1723, p. 29.— Tenore, Memor. lette 

 1827 alia Eeale Acad. Scienze, p. 101, t. 5, f. A. Fl. Neap. hi. 203 ; 

 Icon. t. 224 f. A. Sylloge Fl. Nap. 95.— Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 

 ii. t. 252 (glabriuscula). — Tanfani, in Pari. Fl. It. viii, 115 (excl. 

 loc. Illyr.). 



Hab. In Gargani montibus San Angelo et Sacro 300-800 m. 

 alt. (Ten., Gussone, Giordano, Porta & Rigo). 



