Vogel, both under the name ofnervosus and trigonus. Mr. 

 Tweedie has the credit of introducing the living plant 

 to our gardens, having sent seeds to His Grace the late 

 Duke of Bedford, from Puerto Bravo, in South Brazil. If 

 trained neatly to a trellis in a pot, this makes a very pretty 

 appearance in the greenhouse, with its glaucous foliage and 

 large blue flowers. We learn that, in summer, it flowers 

 well m the open border. 



Descr. Lamarck describes the stems as one foot long in 

 its native state. In cultivation, they attain a length of two 

 and more feet, and are rather stout, triangular, and striated. 

 Leaves glaucous-glabrous (as is every part of the plant,) 

 unyugate; leaflets elliptical-ovate, mucronate, many-nerved, 

 with the nerves prominent, especially in the dry state, lon- 

 ger than the mternodes in the upper part of the stem. 

 Petioles very short, almost none. Tendrils very long, gene- 

 rally twice divided in a trichotomous manner. Stipules 

 nearly two-thirds the size of the leaflets, ovato-triangular, 

 semisagittate, resembling the leaflets in texture and vena- 

 tion. Peduncle axillary, as long as the tendrils, many- 

 Howered. Flowers large, handsome, pale purplish-blue. 

 ^atyx with five teeth, two-lipped, upper lip shortest, biden- 

 tdte lower one with three subulate teeth, of which the 

 middle one is much the longest. The pod is described as 

 two inches and a half long, linear, glabrous, containing 

 seven or eight seeds. ° 



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