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P L A T E CCCCXCIX,
I P O M E A COCCINEA.
Scurkt Tpomma.
CLASS V. ORDER L
FENTANDRIA MONOGYNU, Five Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER."
C o r o l l a inñindibulifortnis, Stigma capitatoglobosum.
Capsula S-lociilaris.
Blossom funnel-shaped. Summit headed, of a
globular form, Capsule of 3 loculaments.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Ipom.'ea foliis hederinis: pedunculis mult!-
floris : corollis saturate coccineis : caule
purpureo, torto et involuto.
Ipom;ea with ivy-shaped leaves : footstalks with
many flowers : blossoms of a deep scarlet:
stem purple, twisted, and twining.
REFERENCE TO'THS PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom spread open.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
Of this spec>es of Ipomaea there are t^vo good uncoloured figures: one in Commelin's Rariorum,
tab. 21, under the title of Quamoclit Americana; the other in the Americana of Plumier, 89, tab 103
under the appellation of Convolvulus coccineus; but not to be confounded with the Ipomaea coccinel
(erroneously so called) of the Botanical Magazine, which is the I. luteola of Jacquin's Icones and a
very different plant : although Willdenow in his Species Plantarum has made a mere variety of it •
observing that it differs in no other particular except in colour. But comparison, either with the livin<^
plants or the figures above alluded to, will prove them to be distinct in their foliage as well as the
colour of their flowers. Neither of them is well discriminated by its specific title; as the I. luteola is
more ot a scarlet than of a yellow colour, and the coccínea is of too deep a red to be with accuracy
denominated scarlet. But references to colour are mostly too equivocal to be veiy characteristic
i r om Mr. J. Milne, botanic gardener at FonthiJI, we received this specimen, whose luxuriant
growth ,n the hot-stove may probably have occasioned the abbreviation in tl.e filaments, which are generally
extended a little beyond the mouth of the flower, instead of being confined to the base of the
urbe, as our figure represents; but in which we follow nature : and although it is not an unprecedented
circumstance to find the threads shortened or lengthened by culture, yet when that difference is so very
• powerful as in the present instance, it is well deserving noticc.