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P L A T E LXIII.
USTERI A SCANDENS.
Climbing Ußeria.
C L A S S XIV. ORDER IL
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinquepartitum,
perfiftens; laciniis ereflis, fubulatis.
CosoLLA. Monopetala, ringens, tubus ventricofus,
bafi ar6ta; limbus bilabiatus, labium
y á / m o f bifidum, rotunda t um, reflexum; lab
i um infirius trifidum, laciniis rotundatis,
intermedia minore.
STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, fub labio fuperiori
recondita, quorum duo lateralia
longiora, fundo corollae infarta, bali incrafùita,
lanata, apice incurvata. Antherae
ereiSlse, verfatiles, approximate.
TISTILLUM. Germen fub-rotundum. Stylus filiformis,
perfiftens; longitudine ftaminum.
Stigma obtufum.
PEKICARPIOM. Capfula fab-rotunda, bilocularis,
calyce longior, obtufa.
SEMINA plurima, fub-rotunda, fcabrida.
S P E C I F I C
Uñeria caulis volubilis; foliis haftatis; floribus
folitariis, purpuréis; pedunculis torlis, longiffimis.
H A I i A C T E K .
EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five divifions,
p e r m a n e n t ; fegments upright, and awliliaped.
BLOSSOM. One leaf, gaping, tube fwelled out
in the middle, and pinched in at the bafe;
border with two lips, the upfer divided
i n to two lobes, which are rounded, and
bent back; the lo-wer has three divifions,
the fegments rounded, the middle one the
fmalleft.
CHIVES. Threads four, hid under the upper lip,
of which the two fide ones are the longeft,
fixed into the bottom of the blolTom, thickened
at the bafe, woolly, and turned inward
a t the point. Tips upright, ilightly fixed
b y the middle, and approaching.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud nearly round. Shaft thread-
Ihaped, remaining, the lengt h of the chives.
Summit blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule nearly round, of two
cells, longer than the cup, blunt ended.
SEEDS many, almofi; round, and very rough.
C H A R A C T E R .
Ufteria wilh a climbing ftem; leaves halbertf
h a p e d ; flowers folitary, and purple; fruitftalks
twifted, very long.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Bloflbm cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
2. One Chive, (magnified).
3 . The Pointal, (natural fize).
4 . The Empalement, and Seed-veflel nearly ripe, of its natural fize.
THIS is another of thofe plants raifed in the year 1797 by the Marchionefs of Bute, at her charming
little villa, Brompton, from feeds, fent to her ladyihip from Spain by Dr. Ortega. It is a native of
Mexico, North America, and will live through our winters with the proteaion of a greenhoufe, to
which it forms a beautiful ornament as a creeper; flowering from May till September, but does not
appea-r to be a long-lived plant; is eafily propagated by cuttings, or from feeds, which are ripened by
November, or eariier; thriving befl: in hght rich earth.