



to fall into their places with facility, and to range to ad- 

 vantage. Mr. Brown has since thought it necessary to de- 

 tach from both genera a division, under the appellation of 

 Calystegia, which he distinguishes by a calyx which is 

 enclosed between two leafy bractes, and by a capsule which 

 is unilocular. 



The present plant is a native of the East Indies, where, 



grows in hedges and 



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according to Dr. Roxburgh, it 



thickets; flowers during the wet season; and affords pro- 

 vender to cattle. JacquiQ mentions it as native of the Isle 



of France. 



The former says the stem grows some fathoms 



in length, and dies down every year to the root; the lat- 

 ter, that in the Isle of France it winds round the trunks 

 of trees to the height of twenty feet, and does not die 

 down annually ; altho' we see it certainly does when culti- 

 vated in our stoves. The root is perennial, and consists of 

 .elongated round fleshy lactescent tubers, brown on the out- 

 side. Leaves 3-6 inches long, palmate, 7-nerved, divided 

 to beyond the middle into 5-5-7 lobes, the outer ones of 

 -which are smallest. The bloom is ornamental, and appears 

 about July in many flowered cymose panicles, from the 

 axils of the upper leaves. Corolla about 2 inches deep, 

 bright rose-colour within the faux, paler at the limb; on 

 the outside the colour shines thro' a white porcelane-like 



glaze. Seed woolly. 



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Introduced in M99 by Mr. Thomas Gibbs. We owe the 



Hall, 



opportunity of taking- the present drawing- to Mr. John 



in whose hothouse, at Notting Hill, the plant 

 flowered this summer in great perfection. We had never 



before seen it in flower; but we had found young plants of 

 it at Messrs. Whitley, Branies, and Milne's nursery. 



. Propagated by parting the root. Should be kept in the 

 tan-pit, and led along the rafters of the house, or suffered 

 to twine round props placed for the purpose. 





a The corolla dissected, to s>how the stamens, b The pistil, with didy 

 mo us-capitate stigma* 



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