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CON ANTHER A? campanulata. 
Bell-flowered Conanthera. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA— Nat. Ord. ASPHODELEJE. 
Gen. Char. — Perianthium superum, hexaphyllum, reflexum, folioHs alter- 
nis inaequalibus. Antherce in conum coalitae. Filamenta subglandulosa, 
Capsula trilocularis polysperma. 
Conanthera? campanulata; foliis (ternis) lineari-lanceolatis, longe at- 
tenuatis canaliculatis, perianthio monophyllo campanulato sex-fido, 
segmentis aequalibus. 
Conanthera bifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 2496. (not of Ft. Perm, nor of Lodd.). 
The root, which is probably bulbous, I have not seen. Leaves, only 3 in 
the present specimen, 8-10 inches in length, linear-lanceolate, grooved 
above, attenuated at the base, and remarkably so at the extremity. 
Scape a foot high, rounded, glabrous, with distantly placed, lanceolate, 
sheathing hraclew, simple, with an undivided raceme at the extremity. 
Pedicels rather long, bracteated at the base, bracteae small, subulato- 
membranaceous. Perianth half superior, drooping, about the size of, 
and very much resembling in shape, the flower of Campanula rotundifo- 
lia, of a deep purple-blue, bell-shaped, 6-cleft, the segments oval, ob- 
tuse, patent, at length refiexed, ciliated at the margin. Anthers inserted 
at the very base of the perianth. Filaments exceedingly short, white, 
glabrous, united into a ring by their broad bases, so that the stamens 
are in reality monadelphous. Anthers lanceolate, yellowish-green, bi- 
fid at the point. Cells 2, opening near the sides, longitudinally, sur- 
rounding the style, and meeting, so as to form a cone. Pistil: germen 
ovato-globose, green, half inferior, obtusely trigonal above, and taper- 
ing upwards into a straight, subulate white style ; stigma acute, 3-cell- 
ed : cells with many ovules. 
The roots of this plant were sent to our Botanic Garden by 
Mr Cruickshanks from Chili, and they flowered in the green- 
house in the month of May 1826. 
The habit of this plant, and the structure of the stamens 
and germen, are so similar to those of Conanthera bifolia of 
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