present instance attained the length of near 60 feet within 

 the space of three years from seed; and had not the swarm 

 of runners it produces from both root and stem been re- 

 peatedly stopped and removed, would probably have ex- 

 tended itself on all sides to the same distance, and overrun 

 the stove in which it grows. We can hardly conceive any 

 single vegetable to form a more pleasing and durable orna- 

 ment than this ; which should be led round the hothouse 

 along a lath or iron-rod, when the twining branches, 

 clothed by a broad heart-shaped foliage, will constitute a 

 thick evergreen wreath, from various parts of which, 

 throughout its whole extent, a succession of large azure 

 bloom is kept up for months together ; so that the entire 

 circumference of the house will be daily enlivened by fresh 

 appearances of it. Individually the flowers arc but of short 

 duration; in the morning, of a vivid ultramarine blue; by 

 mid-day, reddening at the plaits of the border; before sun- 

 set, wholly suffused with red, when they dissolve. The 

 stem is of a tough pliable wood, in external appearance 



The foliage 



much like that of the Aristolochia Sipho. 



varies from cordate and undivided, to two three-lobed 



with broad lanceolate divisions. 



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bourhood of the town, 



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f the country, cannot at present be 



The drawing was made at the botanical establishment of 

 the Comtesse de Vandes, Bays water. 



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The stamens as they stand within the cylindric faux. £ The pistil 



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