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L O PH O S P É RM UM scandens.
Climbing Lophospermum.
Linnean Class and Order. D ID Y N A M IA A N G IO S P E R M IA .
Natural Order. S C R O P H U L A R IN ^ . Brown prodr. p . 433.
Sect. I I . AntiRRHINEJE. Antheris bilobis muticis, seminibus testà
coriaceo-spongiosà corrugatà v. reticulatim scrobiculata prmditis. D . Don
Linn, trans. V. 16. p. 361.
L O P H O S P E R M U M . Ca/j/x 5-partitus. Coro/fa campanulata: limbo
5-lobo, submquali. Capsula bilocularis irregularitèr dehiscens. Semina imbricata,
membranaceo-alata. H. Don loc. cit. p . 362.
L. scandens, foliis cordato-triangularibus acuminatis irregulariter grosse
dentatis : inferioribus oppositis planis : superioribus alternis inciso-
serratis, pedunculis ebracteatis, caule suffrutescente.
Lophospermum scandens. D . Don Linn, trans, v. 16. p . 363. Swt. hort. brit.
edit. 2. p . 390.
Besleria scandens. Seise et Mocinno Mss.
Stem climbing, frutescent, becoming hard and woody at
the base, much branched ; branches spreading round in all
directions, laying hold by the petioles of the leaves to each
other, or to any other plant or stick within their reach, in the
same manner as Maurándia or Trop’aolum, thickly clothed
with short spreading hairs, all tipped with minute glands.
Leaves on long footstalks, variable in form, unequally toothed
with large teeth, terminating in sharp cartilaginous points,
thickly clothed on both sides with short woolly hairs, which
occasions a very soft woolly feel when touched, more or less
tinged with dark purple, according to the situation in which
the plant is grown : lower ones opposite, from 4 to 6 inches
long, and the same in breadth in the broadest part, varying
according to the strength of the plant, cordate at the base,
triangular, shortly acuminate at the point, quite flat, and
divaricately spreading, dilated considerably a little above
the base and terminated in a sharpish point on both sides,
deeply but unequally toothed, strongly 3-nerved from the
base, each of the side nerves producing two other horizontal
ones a little above the base, and are again branched : upper
leaves alternate, much smaller, not so much triangular, but
more hastate towards the base, sharper toothed. Petioles
nearly cylindrical, but slightly furrowed on the upper side,
more or less purple, thickly clothed with the same glandular
hairs. Flowers axillary, solitary, without bractes, of a bright
purple, varying to rose-colour. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, also
densely clothed with slender hairs tipped with minute glands :
segments oblongly ovate, acute, efect, the points spreading, a
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