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Among the extravagant oddities was a shrubby tender vine whose common name, monastery bells, speaks to its big, squat campanulate flower, unlike any other I have seen.

Receptacle rising from the apex, conic or hemispheric, concave beneath and expanded into usually 4 large campanulate 1-fruited involucres.

B. grandiflora, 1 ft., has large bluish-purple flowers; B. coccinea, 2 to 3 ft., has tubular campanulate nodding flowers of a rich crimson with green tips.

Involucre.—Silky hairy; broadly campanulate; with imbricated, appressed bracts.

Pileus slender, campanulate, usually striate, margin straight and adpressed to stem when young.