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COB^EA SCANDENS. CLIMBING CoBjEA. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Cbaracler. 



Cat. l-phyllus, 5-fidus. Cor. i-petala campanulata. NeH. 

 corpus 5-gonum glandulorum germen cihgens. Organa dech- 

 nata. Filamenta demum fpiralia. Cap/. 3 — 5-locularis. Sent. 

 plurima imbricata. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



COBiEA fc aniens. 



COB;EA Jcandens ; caule fcandente foliis abrupte pinnati* 



eirrhofis : pinnutis ovatis. Cavan. Icon. p. *£• 



/. 16, 17. 

 COBBEA Jcandens. Bot. Repof. t. 342. 



This elegant climber promifes to be one of the greateft or- 

 naments of our confervatories, growing with aftoniftiing rapi- 

 dity and being eafily propagated by cuttings. It appears to 

 have been firlt raifed in Europe, in the royal garden at Madrid, 

 and was defcribed and figured by Profeffor Cavan illes, m 

 the firfl: volume of his Icones, but not taken up by Willde- 

 now in his Species Plantarum. Is a native of Mexico, wher e 

 it goes by the name of Tedra Morada, or Violet Ivy. The 

 flowers are at firfl: green, but gradually change to a fine violet; 

 and the ftyle and ftamens, which at an early ftage are fhorter 

 than the corolla, are afterwards protruded confiderably beyond 

 it, the filaments becoming twilled in a fingular manner. 



It received its name from Father Co bo, a learned Jen" 1 * 

 who, after a refidence of more than forty years in America, 

 wrote a Natural Hiftory of the New World, in ten books, 

 about the middle of the feventeenth century, which though it" 

 extant has never been publilhed. 



Our drawing was taken in July 1784, at Mr. Woodford s, 

 Vauxhall. 



