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P L A T E CCCXLTI.
C O B B E A SCANDENS.
Climbing Cohhca.
C L A S S V. ORDER L
FENTANBRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointai.
GENEEIC CHARACTEE.
CALYX. Perianthiura monophylliim, femiquinquefidum
; laciniis cordatis, mucronatis,
patentibus, perfiflens.
COROLLA monopetala, campaniilata,verfus balín
arctata, quinquefida; laciniis concavis, trilobis,
ciliatis; fquamulae quinqué lanatas,
ad bafin finus tubi, conniventes.
Nectariìim, corpus carnofum, quinquangulare,
decern fulcatum, germen cingeiis.
STAMINA. Filamenta quinqué, fquamulis corollae
orta, declinata. Antherje incumbentes.
PisTiLLUM. Germenovatum, fulcatum. Stylus
filiformis, declinatus, flaminibus longior.
Stigmata tria, plana, recurvata.
PERICARPIOM. Capfula oblonga, trilocularis,
trivalvis.
SEMINA plurima, valvulis affisa, compreíTa, imbrícala.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one-ìeaf, half five-cleft-;
fegments heart-iliaped, ending in a point,
fpreading, perfiftent.
BLOSSOM one-petal, bell-iliaped, narrowed towards
the bafe, five-cleft; fegments concave,
three-lobed, fringed; five woolly
fcales at the bafe of the bofom of the tube
clofing upon each other.
Honey-cup, a flelliy body, five-angled, tenfurrowed,
embracing'the feed-bud.
CHIVES. Five threads, arifing from the fcales
of the bloflbm, declined. Tips lying upon
the threads.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud egg-ihaped, furrowed.
Shaft thread-fliaped, declined, longer than
the threads. Summits three, flat, turned
back.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfula oblong, three cells, three
valves.
SEEDS many, fixed to the valves, flat, tiled.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Cobbea foliis conjugatis, cirrhofis; fioribus folitariis,
pedunculis longiffirais; caule fcandenti.
Cobbea with conjugate leaves terminating in a
tendril; flowers folitaiy, foot-ftalks very
long; Hem climbing.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Blofl"iim cut and fpread open, with the Chives in their place
2. The Empalement, Honey-cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summits. '
THE fpecimen, from which our drawing was taken, was communicated by Mrs Lono- from the Col
lection of ihe Honourable Charles Long, of Bromley Hill, Kent; where, we believe the onlv plant of
this fine Genus is at prefent to be found in Britain; and where it has flowered for the firit time this
year, in the month of September, 1803. It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and mufl be kept as a'hot
houfe plant; is propagaied by cuttings, and thrives in rich earth; will grow, if permitted to the
height of twenty feet or more, and is ffill in flower this prefent month of November. '
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