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CoB#A MACROSTEMA. LoNG-STAMENED 
CoBAA. 
Class and Order. 
Penranpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Poxemon1acez.—Copziacez. Don. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-partitus amplus. Cor. subcampanulata, limbo 5- 
lobo. Stigma 3-fidum. Caps.-3-valvis dissepimento tri- 
quetro, angulis valve adversis. Semina biseriata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Copza* macrostema ; foliolis obovatis basi ciliatis calycis 
segmentis lanceolatis ciliatis, corolla subhypocrateri- 
formi segmentis acutis nervosis, staminibus styloque 
longissime exsertis. 
Cozpza macrostema. Pavon MSS. (fide Don.) 
Cosma lutea. Don, in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1824. p. 112. 
Conma acuminata. De Cand. 
Among some seeds which Mr. Sxiyner had been so kind 
as to send me from Guatemala in the spring of the present 
year (1839), were those of the most interesting plant here 
firured. The seedlings grew during the summer and 
autumn with considerable vigour: but it was not till No- 
vember of the same year that they produced blossoms, 
which, no less than the leaves, proclaim the plant to bea | 
Cozaa, not, indeed altogether new to our Herbaria (though 
there 1 believe of very rare occurrence: but new to our 
greenhouses and conservatories, where, and probably in the 
open air, it promises to be as valuable a climber as =a 
well- 
* See Bot. Mag. t. 851, for an explanation of the name. 
