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minute tubercles, which occasions a slight roughness. Tendrils much
branched, the branches many times forked, and terminated in little hooks
at the end, which catch hold of all within their reach, and soon become
entangled in an inextricable mass. Petioles channelled on the upper side,
thickened and widened a little at the base, clothed rvitli numerous short
glandular hairs when young, becoming smooth by age. Racemes opposite
to a leaf, many-flowered. Flowers inflated, of a pale orange colour. Rrac-
t o small, lanceolate, broad at the base, and tapering to a slender point,
about one third the length ot the peduncle. Peduncles glossy, tinged with
PV'P f ’ thickly clothed with short rigid pellucid hairs that are terminated
With little glands at the point, as are those on every other part of the
plant. Cahjx campanulate, 5-cleft, 5-keeled, the keels terminating at the
points of the segments, hairy; segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, spread-
Corolla tubular, contracted at the base, and inflated from about the
middle, the point cleft into 5 short broad acute segments, that soon become
reflexed, so as scarcely to be seen, the outside covered with the same
short rigid glandular hairs as the other parts of the plant. Stamens 4, didy-
namous, or two longer than the others, with the rudiment o f a fifth, all in-
cluded within the tube, and inserted in it where it first becomes inflated.
Ttlaments smooth, thickest at the lower part, and tapering upwards, inserted
between the two lobes of the anthers. Anthers two-lobed, nodding
the lobes divaricate, densely clothed at the back with short glandular hairs.
iVecfan'K?« thick and fleshy, bowl-shaped. pubescent. iSiyfcglossy,
ew glandular hairs. Stigma bearing here and there a few two-lobed, the lobes
connivent.
The present genus was very properly distinguished by Mr. D . Don, from
the other two species of Eccremocarpus ; from which it is readily recognised
at first sight, by its inflated flowers, and the divaricate lobes o f its anthers ;
in the two true species of that genus, the tubes are cylindrical, and the anthers
linear, besides other distinctions.
A s the present handsome plant is such a fine ornament all through the
latter end of Summer and Autumn, we thought it certainly deserving a
place in our publication, as it makes a fine appearance when trained against
a wall or trellis, and is covered with its long racemes of brilliant flowers,
as the one was from which our drawing was made, at the Nursery o f Mr’.
Joseph Knight, in the King’s-road, where a small plant had been turned out
m the open border at the end of the Greenhouse in Spring, and in October
had entirely covered the end, and was rambling on the lights of the house,
^v e r ed with hundreds of long racemes of flowers; and now, the middle of
December, it is still thriving in the same situation, without protection, though
we have already had several severe frosts ; it certainly ought to he in every
collection, where there is a convenience for training it up ; a slight covering
m the severest frost will secure it w ell through theW inter, or if not protected,
and killed to the ground, it will shoot up the following Spring, and grow
and flower as freely as before, but of course rather later ; it is readily increased
by young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, or by seeds, which
ripen in abundance.
The generic name is derived from xako;, fair or beautiful, and aas-ik.?, a
v in e ; a beautiful vine.
1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the four fertile Stamens,
and the short barren one. 3. Stamen detached, to show the glandular hairs at the back
ot the anther. 4. Ovarmm surrounded by the bowl-shaped nectariferous crown, termi-
nated by the Style, and connivent two-lobed Stigma.
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