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CAMPANULACE.E. XIX. SYMPHYANDRA. XX. MUSSCHIA. XXI. MERCIERA. 



Camp. Vandesii, G. Don, in Loud. hort. brit. p. 77. Roots 

 rather creeping, throwing out many stems. Flowers drooping, 

 showy, cream-coloured, disposed in a loose panicle, intermixed 

 with the leaves; peduncles 1-3-flowered. 



Pendulous-branched Symphyandra. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 

 1817. PI. 1 foot. 



3 S. ARME'NA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 367.) stem erect, twiggy, 

 stiff, pilose ; leaves ovate, acute, coarsely serrated, clothed with 

 hoary velvety down ; flowers terminal, solitary ; calyx hoary, 

 with triangular entire segments; sinuses of calyx reflexed, small, 

 acute; corolla tubular, velvety. Tf.. H. Native of Caucasus, 

 in the fissures of rocks, about Gandsha. Campanula Armena, 

 Stev. mem. soc. mosc. 3. p. 256. Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. 145. 

 Root oblong, fixed to rocks. Stem branched, rather woody, 

 purplish, downy. Leaves tomentose beneath ; lower ones cor- 

 date, similar to those of Alliaria officinalis. Flowers solitary, 

 drooping, terminating the branches. Corolla blue. 



Armenian Symphyandra. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1825. PI. 

 1 foot. 



4 S. ? OSSE'TICA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 368.) stem humble, 

 simple ; leaves petiolate, cordate, doubly serrated ; calyxes gla- 

 brous, with the segments long and denticulated, much shorter 

 than the sinuses, which are reflexed ; corolla somewhat 5-cleft, 

 having the segments pilose inside. I/ . H. Native of Iberia, in 

 Ossetia, on Mount Kaischaur. Campanula Ossetica, Bieb. fl. 

 taur. suppl. p. 145. Habit of S. pendula, but is destitute of 

 branches, and is wholly glabrous. Flowers solitary, axillary, 

 erect, disposed in a crowded simple raceme from the middle of 

 the stem to its top. Corollas blue. 



Ossetian Symphyandra. PI. -| to 1 foot. 



Cult. These plants have much the habit of the large bell- 

 flowered species of Campanula, as C. punctdta and C. medium. 

 They are of easy culture, and are increased by dividing at the 

 root, or by seed ; and being showy, are worth cultivating as 

 border-flowers. 



XX. MU'SSCHIA (so named by Alphonse de Candolle, in 

 honour of J. M. Mussche, director of the botanic garden at 

 Gaud.). Alph. D. C. mon. p. 368. t. 6. f. A. Campanula spe- 

 cies of Lin. and others. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla 

 deeply 5-cleft, of a golden yellow colour. Stamens 5, cuspidate 

 at the apex, free ; filaments broadest at the base, glabrous. 

 Stigmas 5. Capsule 5-celled, 10-nerved, dehiscing by nume- 

 rous transverse lateral fissures between the nerves ; cells alter- 

 nating with the calycine lobes and stamens. Seeds numerous, 

 small, ovoid, shining. A small glabrous shrub, native of Ma- 

 deira and Teneriffe, altogether different in habit to any other 

 campanulaceous plant. Stem thick. Leaves alternate, large, 

 serrated. Flowers numerous, pyramidally racemose, yellow. 



1 M. AU'REA (Dumortier, comm. bot. ann. 1823. p. 28. Alph. 

 D. C. mon. p. 368.). *} G. Native of Madeira and Teneriffe, 

 among rocks. Campanula aurea, Lin. suppl. p. 141. Lam. diet. 

 1. p. 590. Ait. hort. kew. 1. p. 223. Vent. malm. t. 116. Du- 

 ham. arbr. 3. p. 169. with a good figure. Ker. bot. reg. t. 57. 

 Plant suffruticose, evergreen, milky, quite glabrous. Stem sim- 

 ple, rather fleshy, marked by the cicatrices occasioned by the 

 falling of the leaves, but furnished with a crown of leaves at top: 

 and annual floriferous branches, which are disposed in a leafy 

 pyramidal panicle. Leaves 3-6 inches long, pale green, shining. 

 Peduncles 1-3-flowered. Flowers erect. 



Var. /3, angustifolia (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 369.) leaves very 

 narrow. \ . G. Native along the coast of Madeira, on rocks. 

 Campanula aurea, Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 4. t. 472. 



Co/rfen-flowered Musschia. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1777. Shrub 

 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. This remarkable shrub thrives very well in a mixture 

 of loam and peat ; but is only to be increased by seed, of which 

 abundance is produced in the gardens. 



t A genus not sufficiently known, and it is not quite certain 

 whether it belongs to Campanulacece. 



XXI. MERCIE'RA (named by Alphonse De Candolle, in 

 honour of his friend, Philip Mercier, who has written a mono- 

 graph on the order Polemoniacece). Alph. D. C. mon. p. 370. 

 Trachelium species, Thunb. prod. p. 38. Lin. suppl. p. 143. 

 Roella species, Banks, herb. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft, with an 

 ovoid tube. Corolla 5-lobed, caducous, with a very narrow 

 tube. Stamens 5, free ; filaments very slender at the base, 

 much longer than the anthers. Style filiform, usually ex- 

 serted, glabrous; stigmas 2, very short. Ovarium inferior, 1- 

 celled, probably always. Ovula usually 4, placed in the bottom 

 of the ovarium. Capsule indehiscent. ? Small Cape shrubs, 

 with the habit of Roella. Stems erect, branched ; branches 

 very leafy, downy, rather woody, reddish. Leaves sessile, 

 alternate, crowded, linear-subulate, more or less ciliated, stiff, 

 and very similar to those of Roella. Flowers sessile, solitary, 

 spicate, always axillary. Inflorescence centripetal. Calyx 

 with a very hispid tube, and lanceolate acute smoothish seg- 

 ments. Corolla like that of Trachelium, long, tubular, and 

 narrow. The character of the capsule still remains unknown ; 

 this is, however, without doubt inferior, and probably 1-celled, 

 and contains 4 ovula in the bottom. The capsule is without 

 any indication of dehiscence in the specimen examined by Alph. 

 D. C. 



1 M. TENUIFOLIA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 370. t. 5.) leaves 

 much ciliated ; corolla blue, longer than the leaves, 5-lobed 

 at the very apex : lobes lanceolate, spreading, pilose on the 

 back ; style a little exserted. Pj . G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Trachelium tenuifolium, Thunb. prod. fl. cap. p. 

 38. Lin. suppl. p. 143. Roella compacta, R. pinifolia, and 

 Trachelium tenuifolium, Thunb. in herb. Banks. Habit of 

 Roella ciliata. Stem erect, branched. Flowers very numerous, 

 always lateral, solitary and sessile in the axils of the leaves. 



Fine-leaved Merciera. Shrub 1 foot. 



2 M. BREVIFOLIA (Alph. D. C. p. 371.) leaves ciliated a little ; 

 corolla white, length of leaves, 5-lobed at the apex : lobes lan- 

 ceolate, spreading, glabrous ; style doubly longer than the co- 

 rolla, fj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Roella 

 lateriflora, Banks, herb. Very like the preceding. Flowers 

 numerous, lateral, solitary, in the axils of the leaves. 



Short-leaved Merciera. Shrub 1 foot. 



3 M. LEPTOLOBA (Alph. D. C. mon. p. 371.) leaves ciliated; 

 corolla rather shorter than the leaves, white, 5-cleft: lobes linear, 

 erectish, glabrous ; style length of corolla. Tj ^- Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Habit of the preceding species. 

 Flowers sessile, solitary, among the leaves. ' 



Slender-lobed-ftovtered. Merciera. Shrub 1 foot. 



Cult. A mixture of peat and sand is a good soil for the 

 species of Merciera ; and they may be increased either by cut- 

 tings under a hand-glass, or by seed. 



f Plants referred to the genus Campanula, but it is doubtful to 

 nhat genera they belong. 



1 CAMPA'NULA STELLA V TA (Thunb. phyt. bl. p. 20. mem. acad. 

 petersb. 4. p. 373. with a figure) leaves 3 in a whorl, linear, 

 entire ; flowers axillary, pedunculate ; stem frutescent, terete, 

 glabrous, branched, erectish, a hand high ; branches alternate, 

 simple, a little curved ; leaves sessile, acute, imbricated, ungui- 

 cular ; flowers solitary, at the tops of the branches ; peduncles 



