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* COBAA stipularis. 
Changeable Cobea. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PoLEMONIACES. 
COB4A, Cav. Calyx foliaceus, campanulatus, quinquangulatus, ad 
suturas quinquealatus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulata, limbi quinquelobi 
lobis late rotundatis, sequalibus. Stamina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta, exserta, 
zequalia ; filamenta declinata, demum spiratim torta; anthere oblonge, in- 
cumbentes. Discus hypogynus carnosus, quinquangularis, quinquefoveolatus. 
Ovarium tri-v. rarius quinqueloculare. Ovula in loculoruam angulo centrali 
plurima, biseriata, amphitropa. Stylus terminalis, simplex ; stigma tri- 
quinquefidum. Capsula pyriformis, subcarnosa, tri-quinquelocularis, locu- 
licido tri-quinquevalvis, valvis columnam centralem placentiferam, tri-penta- 
gonam nudantibus. Semina in loculispauca, biseriata, imbricatim adscendentia, 
suborbiculata, compressa, testa spongiosa, undique in alam membranaceam 
angustam producta, umbilico propre basim ventrali, lineari. Hmbryo intra 
albumen parcum, carnosum rectus; cotyledonibus late cordatis, obtusis, planis ; 
radicula brevissima, infera. Frutex mexicanus, scandens; foliis alternis, 
sessilibus, paripinnatis, apice in cirrhum desinentibus, pedunculis azillaribus 
unifloris, medio bibracteolatis, floribus magnis speciosis Endlich. gen. no. 
3825. 
C. stipularis ; folioram segmentis trijugis jugorum superiorum anguste ova- 
tis acuminatis basi obliquis, jugi infimi stipuleeformibus cauli approxi- 
matis reniformibus deorsum acuminatis, sepalis lanceolato-cordatis acu- 
tissimis, staminibus corollam squantibus. Bentham Pl. Hartweg. p. 
45. no. 344*, 
A very handsome herbaceous plant, introduced from 
Mexico by the Horticultural Society. Mr. Hartweg found 
it near San Cornelio. It is a perennial, like the old Cobza 
scandens, or rather a half-shrubby plant, but it may be re- 
garded as an annual so far as English gardens are concerned. 
The best way to manage it is to raise it annually from seeds 
sown on a hot bed in March. 
It rapidly scrambles on any thing near it, and produces 
* So called by Cavanilles in compliment to a Spanish Jesuit, named 
Cobo, who wrote on Natural History about the middle of the 17th century. 
