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TAB. 6185.
CYANANTHÜS LOBATüS.
Native of tlic Himalayan Mountains.
Nat. Oíd. CAMPANULáCEAS.•Tribe CAMPANULEJE.
Genus CYAîTANTHUS. Wall.; {Benth. et Houk.f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 557.
CYANANTHUS lobatus; caulibus adscendentibus foliosis pilosis villosis v. glabratis,
foliis glabratis cuneato-obovatis v. spatbulatis irregulariter 3-5-lobatis v.inciso-
crenatis, floribus breviter pedunculatis magnis speciosis.calycis tubo cylindraceo
subinflato atro dense villoso breviter 5-lobo, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis, corollas
bete violáceas lobis patenti-recurvis late obovatis apiculatis apicibus barbellatis.
C. lobatus, Wall. Cat. no. 1473; Benth. in Boyle III. Himal. PI. p. 309, t. 69,
f. 1 ; Lindl. in Bot. Beg. N. S. vol. xx. t. 6 ; Begel Gartenfl. t. 888 ; Hool:f.
and Thorn», in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 19.
This is certainly one of the most beautiful of the alpine
Himalayan herbaceous plants, forming broad patches on
the bare mountain flanks at elevations of 12,000 to 14,000
feet from Kumaon eastwards to Sikkim, enlivened with a
profusion of brilliant violet-blue horizontal or nodding
flowers. It was discovered in Kumaon and Nepal by
Wallich's collectors in 1821, and was introduced into the
Horticultural Gardens in 1845 by that gallant soldier and
accomplished botanist, General Munro, C.B., whose lamented
death took place a few weeks ago. There, how T ever, it
seems to have flowered very imperfectly, the specimen
figured in the Botánica] Register having a shorter green
faintly hairy calyx, and pale corolla with narrower lobes
than in the specimen here figured. In his description of
the plant Dr. Lindley alludes to the anomalous character of
its wholly superior ovary and naked style, as opposed to its
being placed in Campanulace•, to which Order Bentham
had rightly referred it, and wherein it has been retained by
all succeeding botanists.
Cyananthus lobatus may be successfully treated as a rock-
APRIL 1ST, 1880.