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TAB. 6484.
CONANDRON RAMONDIOIDIS.
Native of Japan.
Nat. Orel. GESNERACE.E.•Tribe CYRTANDREíE.
Genus CONANDRON, Sieb, et Zuce.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 1021.)
CONANDRON ramondioides ; acaulis, rbizomate subtuberoso aplce viilis seiieeis
brunneis onusto, foliis oblongo- v. elliptico-ovatis subsessilibus v. in petiolum
nudum v. late alatum eroso-dentatum contractas, acutis v. acuminatis irregula-
riter argute eroso-dentatis membranaeeis glabiis, basi interdum valde obliquo
v. insequali cordato v. abrupte v. sensim angustato, scapis nudis hirsutis v.
glabratis, cymis multifloris nutantibus, floribus pedicellatis albis v. roséis,
calycis laciniis linearibus.
C. ramondioides, Sieb, et Zuce, in Abh. Munch. Alead, vol. iü. 2, p. 729, t. 3, f. 1 ;
Miquel, Prolus. FI. Japon, p. 55 ; A. DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 273 ; Maximo».
in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. xix. p. 537 ; Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 370 ; Masters
in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 232.
This very interesting plant has been elaborately described
by Dr. Masters in the " Gardeners' Chronicle " cited above,
and to its description that botanist has added full observa-
tions on its affinities and geographical relations to various
allied or similar plants. The sum of these latter is, that
Conandron is an aberrant member of a group of Gesnera-
ceous plants, which spans the middle mountain regions of
the Old World from Spain to Japan. Thus, it is represented
in the Western Pyrenees by Ramondia pyrenaica (see Tab.
236, Verbascum Myconi), which indeed is its nearest relative ;
by a second species of that genus in Greece, by a third in
Servia, and by Baberlea in the Balkan. From this last
point there is a hiatus, till the Himalaya are reached, no
representative having been hitherto discovered in the
Caucasus or mountains of N. Persia ; but in the Himalaya
Didymocarpus takes up the eastward representation, and
B•a (see Tab. 6468) terminates it in N. China. Wulfenia,
which is European and Himalayan, is intercalated by Dr.
Masters, as is the Japanese and American genus Shortia ;
but these have, I think, no affinity with the above or with
MARCH 1ST, 1880.