Phyteuma, pentandria monogvnia. 107 



obtusely crenate, or obscurely three-lobed, frequently uneqr.ilateral, 

 about four lines long and five broad, covered on both sides with copi- 

 ous adpressed, asli-coloured hair; on short capillary petiols. The up- 

 permost leaves are simply pinnate. — Flower elevated on the naked end 

 of the stem, solitary, nodding, large, about an inch long, blue. — Calyx 

 fiattish, a little hairy, deeply divided into five linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 somewhat spreading, nearly equal, denticulate lacinia, which are nar- 

 rower at their base, and therefore appear distant. — Corolla smooth, 

 veined, campanulate, mueh longer than the calyx ; limb widening, five- 

 lobed, lobes round-ovate, obtuse, terminated by asmaU,gfandular,sorne. 

 what hairy point. Throat pervious, naked. — Stamina five, 9tiai«ht, 

 distinct, shorter than the corolla; filaments linear, somewhat broader 

 at the base where they are attached to the bottom of the corolla, or 

 rather both these parts to one and the same point within the lacunae 

 of the culyx ; anthers erect, with a few hairs on the back, biloeular. 

 ■ — Ovarium above, ovate-oblong, acute, smooth, large, two-celled; 

 ovula numerous, attached to an oblong axile placenta. Style short. 

 Stigma clavate, fleshy, three-lobed : lobes obtuse, pubescent. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Obs. This is a very doubtful plant which I am unable to refer to 

 any known genus. It approaches on the one hand to Vohmoni- 

 um (under which I ought to have placed it), and on the other to 

 Campanula ; its compound leave's give it some analogy to Codonopsis, 

 from which, however, it differs by its decidedly superior ovarium. 

 It will* I doubt not, be found sufficiently distinct from them all to 

 form a separate genus. Its leaves are not unlike those of some of 

 the minute leaved Thalictra; the flower handsome, elevated consi* 

 derably on the naked upper part of the stem. 



PHYTEVMA. Sckreb. Gen. N. 292. 



Calyx semi-superus, five-parted. Corol rotate, insertrd on the 

 calyx. Germ inferior, three-celled, ovula numerous, on a pendulous 



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