C 755 ] 



Pergularia Minor. West-Coast 



Creeper. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Char after. 



Contorta. Neclarinvi ambiens genitalia cufpidibus 5 fagit- 

 talis. Cor. hypocrateriformis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



PERGULARIA minor; foliis rotundato-cordatis abrupteacu- 

 minatis, calycibus tubum aequantibus, corollas 

 laciniis obtufis concavis. 



PERGULARIA minor. Bot. Repof. PI. 184. 



PERGULARIvE odoratiffimse var. Smith Icon. pi£i. Fafc. 3. 

 p. 16. 



Dr. Smith confiders tbis as fcarcely even a variety of his 

 Pergularia odoratijjima ; perhaps, had he feen both in a 

 living date, he might have formed a different conclufion. We 

 acknowledge the affinity is very great, but are inclined to think 

 them diftinct. 



It is a fmaller plant, the leaves are rounder, much more 

 abruptly acuminated, with a {lender recurved point. Corolla of 

 a tawny yellow colour, fegments blunter, concave, margins 

 not reflected, tube hardly longer than the calyx. 



The fragrance of the flowers is exquifite, on which account 

 the plant is much cultivated, to twine round bowers in the 

 gardens, in the Eaft- Indies. Its native country unknown. 

 Introduced to Kew-Gardens by Sir Joseph Banks, in 1784. 



Our drawing was taken in the garden of the Dowager Lady 

 De Clifford, in July 1801. 



Dr. Smith fays, that if any plant is to be confidcrcd as 

 gynandrous, this certainly is; but he has neverthelefs very 

 properly abflained from feparating it from Periploca, Cvn- 

 anchum, Sec. J 



