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stiff hairs. Peduncles short, very hairy. Flower of a long
bell-form, inflated about the middle, and contracted a little
at the mouth, of a pale straw colour, almost white. Calyx
10-cleft, thickly clothed with rigid hairs, every alternate
segment largest and erect, broadly lanceolate, acute, much
undulate or waved at the margins ; the alternate ones not
half the length, also much undulate, and reflexed. Corolla
campanulate, narrow at the base, and inflated upwards,
a littlé contracted at the mouth, deeply 5-cleft, thickly clothed
with short hairs on the outside, and a few very long ones
within ; the Segments broadly ovate, acute, erect or slightly
reflexed. Stamens 5 ; Jilaments distinct, dilated into a broad
wing at the base, that is thickly clothed with bristly hairs,
the upper part cylindrical and smooth, and attached to the
anthers a little above their base : anthers 5, linear, connected
into a tube their whole length 1 and not very readily
divided. Style thickly clothed with long hairs its whole
length. Stigma trifld, the points at length revolute.
Our drawing of this singular and curious plant was taken
last Summer from one growing in the open borders in the
garden at Chelsea, belonging to the Apothecaries’ Company.
Mr. Anderson first raised it from seed received from Dr.
Fischer in 1824 ; it is a native of Mount Caucasus, and
therefore quite hardy, and easily cultivated ; when we first
examined the species, we were surprized to find its anthers
united into a tube, and had no doubt but it would form a
new genus ; we soon after had the opportunity of consulting
M. Alphonso Decandolle’s excellent Monograph on Cam-
p a n u l a c e a ; , where we found the present species, with
Campànula crética, and C. armèna, erected into the present
genus, and C. ossética, attached to it as a doubtful species ;
the union of the anthers closely connects the present genus
with L o b e l i a c e ì e .
The present species succeeds well in the common garden
soil, and may be increased by dividing at the root, or from
seed.
The generic name is derived from ovfi^vaa, connected,
and ovrjp, anther, from the anthers being connected.
1. Calyx divested of the flower, to show the five erect segments, and the five re-
flexed ones. 2. The five Stamens, showing .the five anthers united into a tube, and the
five filaments distinct, and dilated into a broad wing at the base, clothed with bristly
hairs. 3. The same split open, back view. 4. The hairy Style, and trifid Stigma, with
revolute points.