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THE CHINESE PLATYCODE. 
I 
finely and equally serrated from near their base to near tlie point. At the ends of the shoots come 
the flowers, in a retrograde manner, the uppermost flower appearing first, and others afterwards in 
succession downwards, so that the loAvest flower opens last, the inflorescence therefore being what 
Botanists called centrifuctaL 
Each flower is 
lalt 
smooth hemispherical ovary, bearing 5 upriglit narrowly triangular teeth. The corolla varies in size 
grown 
^of a deep rich violet-blue, shaped like a balloon before expansion, and like a basin cut half way down 
gul 
expanded. The capsule opens at the point into 5 loculi- 
Jyx. 
the lobes. The seeds are largish, black, oblong, smooth, and winged on one side. 
in December, 1829. Mr 
Rev. G. H. Vachell, about the neighbourhood of Macao 
dried 
figured 
At first we took it for a mere variety 
tc 
Campanula foliis lanceolatis glabris, insequaliter dentatis. 
terminantibus 
integr; 
But a 
with 
has satisfied us that it is really quite distinct. The Russian plant is described as having a weak stem, 
unable to sustain itself erprt (^^ r.anlf» snrm'f cimnlim r\vrk T«ofnr.Ti^ f^^^,,; i^:^« :« J^ ^ jj /^... .7.v \ 
caule surgit simplicipro ratione tenui,liinc inde flexuoso 
Gmelin), 
our 
texture 
Then the large-flowered Platycode has but 
one flower at the end of the stem {'' in summitate flos insistit speciosissimus ^^) or at the most two ; 
on the contrary our species always has a long raceme, and will even sometimes branch, as is apparent 
from Mr. YacheU's evidence. Moreover, in the first, flip mn^nlp hn. fT.^ ^^r^^ ^-p ... ;^,.^.+^.i 
We 
new name. 
ured 
Both 
produce seed by which they may be propagated. Some years must however elapse before plants 
will bear such flowers as were produced in the specimen now represented. 
A-V*H 
