lOiS ^EN'TANDRIA MONOGYNlAt CodonOptis. 



deeply divided into five triangular ovate, acute, entire, spreading lobes, 

 measuring about five lines in length; the interstices acute-angular. 

 ■ — Corolla bel!-shaped, rather longer than that of the other species; 

 tube eq«ial; lacinicB spreading, ovate, acute. Stamina, style, and 

 stigma as in the preceding ; ovarium rather smaller, turbinate, co- 

 vered with a purplish bloom. — Fruit not seen. 



Obs. The habit of these beautiful plants is very different from 

 that of Campanula; and they differ so much from that section of it 

 ■which is denominated Erinoides, whose capsule also bursts at the 

 apex, that I have not hesitated constituting them into a separate ge- 

 nus. In that the corolla is sub-irregular, and the stigma simple; 

 in this it is perfectly regular, and the stigma three-lobed. The two 

 specirs are very different from each other; C. xiridis has alternate 

 blanches; cordate, villous leaves ; linear, recurved, calycine segments, 

 wnicli stand remote from each other, and a greenish, bell-shaped, veu- 

 tncose,' lather shorter corolla ; purpurea is quite smooth, has opposite 

 jointed bianches and leaves, which are cordate, flowers purple, not 

 veutricose, caUcine lobes triangular, not distant nor revolute. The 

 flowers of both possess a very disagreeable smell, somewhat like that 

 of Biguotiia iudica. — N. W. 



S. C.?? thalictri folia, Wall 



Seem simple, adscending, one-fiowered. leaves pinnate and bi- 

 piunate; leaflets kidney-shaped, villous. Calyx inferior. 



A native uf Gosain-Than, where it blossoms in August. 



Stem\eiy slender and weak, adscending, variously bent, sometimes 

 sub-scaudent, from eight to fourteen inches long, not thicker than a 

 packthread, undivided, upper two-thirds naked, besprinkled with short, 

 grey, soft hairs.-— Leaves alternate, mostly bipinnate, approximate, 

 much longer than their interstices, occupying the lowest third of 

 the stem. Petiot about an inch and half long, as well as the rachis 

 filiform and hairy. Pinnce opposite, in one or two pairs, with 

 a terminal odd one, three inches long. Pinnula opposite, three or 

 four pairs, with an odd one, sub-rotund-renifoim ; obtuse, remotely and 



