1755 
* RHODOCHÍTON volübile. 
Twining Red-Cloak. 
= DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINER, Juss. S ANTIRRHINER (Introduction to the 
Natural System of Botany, p. 273.) 
RHODOCHITON Zuccarini. Calyx membranaceus, coloratus, cam- 
panulatus, 5-fidus. Corolla: tubus anguloso-clavatus, interne pilis sim- 
plicibus reflexis, basi ubique, faucem versus 5-fariam vestitus ; limbus 5-par- 
titus, segmenta subaegualia erecta. Stamina didynama, rudimento quinti, erecta, 
apicibus simplicibus. Stylus sub stigmate rectus Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3367. 
(Capsula vestita, pergamenea, bilocularis, polysperma, irregulariter dehiscens. 
Semina alata, radiatim striata ; ex Zuccarini.) 
Rhodochiton volubile ; Zuccarini in litt. 1829, Otto et Dietr. in verhandl. ver. 
gart. Preuss. 10. 152. t. 1. Graham Z. c. 
Lophospermum atrosanguineum. Zuccarini- Plant. nov. et min. cogn. fasc. 1. 
in Abhandl. Math. Phys. Cl. Monac. vol. 1. p. 306. t. 13. 
: Lophospermum Rhodochiton. D. Don in Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 250. 
A beautiful little climbing herbaceous plant, which was introduced 
late in 1833, by Mr. Low of Clapton, from the Berlin Garden. It 
is not very usual for us to be behindhand with our contemporaries 
in the publieation of new plants, which are of much Horticultural 
interest; but on the present occasion we find ourselves forestalled in 
every direction. We console ourselves with the reflection that we 
are on that very account enabled to give a more complete history of 
the plant than would have been possible at an earlier period. ` 
It was originally raised in the Botanic Garden at Munich from 
seeds collected in Mexico by Count Karwinski, and in the year 1829 
was distributed to other gardens under the name of R hiton 
volubile, an appellation which had been given it by Professor Zuc- 
carini. 
An account of it was soon after published in the Transactions of 
the Prussian Horticultural Society, by Messrs. Otto and Dietrich, 
with a tolerable figure, and the following account of the manner in 
which it had been treated in the Berlin Garden. 
* From počoc red, and xerwv a cloak, in allusion to the colour of its calyx. 
